Tips for using the Voxie Pro app for recording on the iPhone/iPod Touch [was Re: Voxie pro - clarification]
Hi Chris, I posted the information about Voxie Pro. I'll interleave answers to each point after your questions and comments. I'm also cc'ing this to the Macvisionaries list, which uses an easily searchable secondary archive at the Mail Archive web site that supports access key navigation, searching by poster, date range, wild cards and a whole lot of options that make it easier to find and link to old posts, in case these questions come up again, since this reply contains fairly detailed instructions and recommendations for using Voxie Pro. Chris Moore wrote: Hello, I was using voxie pro last evening. In an earlier thread someone pointed out that you could send your recordings to your computer. I didn't find this option under the actions, but I did successfully email a recording to myself. You can transfer files directly to your computer from Voxie Pro without mailing them, but you do this from the Recordings screen after choosing All Recordings or a specific folder category for recordings that you've selected and not by using the Actions buttons from the Recorder screen. This feature is nice, because it allows you to make and access longer recordings that are too large to email. It sounds as though you are making your recording from the Recorder screen and double tapping the Record button to start or pause the recording, then using the Play button to play or pause the recording for review purposes, and possibly using the Title button to assign the recording a name, or the Categories button to file it under a folder category. This is the normal way that Voxie Pro starts up, and it's perfectly fine, but I've found I can work faster and skip extraneous VoiceOver messages if I work in Express Mode, which is designed to let you make your recordings quickly. I suggest that you use Express Mode as your default mode for recording. If you are on the Recorder screen, double tap the Cancel button to exit this screen. Then find the Express Mode button, which is the fourth of five buttons at the bottom of the page that are, in sequence: Recorder, People, Recordings, Express, and Settings. In Express Mode you simply shake the iPhone or iPod Touch to start recording, and you'll hear an ascending tone to tell you when the recording starts and a descending tone when it stops. Then, to play back the recording, I touch the Recordings button at the bottom of the screen (at center, just left of Express) and double tap anywhere on the screen. This takes me to the All Recordings screen with a list view of my recordings in time order (most recently recorded or edited first.) Note: if I do a quick and light double tap I go to All Recordings. If I'm slow about my double tap I'll go to the Select Category screen and then I need to select and double tap All Recordings. To review a recording, just select it from the list. If I want to play back the latest Express recording, I'll flick right in the All Recordings screen to the first entry, which will have a name like Express 1 and flick right to the More Info button. (Just flick directly to the More Info button if you don't want to listen to VoiceOver announce the name, date, time, and size of each listed recording.) Then double tap with focus on More Info. You'll be taken to the general Recorder screen that you first used, but with the title of the recording you just made (e.g. Express 1) instead of Untitled in the title field. Also, if you flick right through the time fields, instead of 0:00 of 0:00 you'll hear your current playhead position and the total time of the recording, e.g. 0:00 of 1:12. To play the recording, flick right to the Play button and double tap. Now, if you want to review a specific part of your recording, either touch or flick right to the slider bar near the bottom of the screen, just after the six action buttons for recording, playing, erasing, adding a title, choosing a category, or adding a status flag. You'll hear 0 per cent, adjustable, swipe up to increase, swipe down to decrease. If you have paused the recording part way through playing it back, you'll hear it say some number like 24 per cent at the beginning. Swipe down until you hear 0 per cent if you want to move to the beginning of the recording. If you want to check a specific part of your recording, swipe to the estimated location, then flick left to the play/pause button and double tap to review. If you need to check the time in minutes or seconds, double tap to pause the recording and flick left to read off the current playhead position (e.g. 0:45 of 1:12). This doesn't update if you simply change the slider for the playhead position, so just do two fast double taps to play and then pause the recording if you want to know what your slider per cent position corresponds to in terms of minutes or seconds. When you work from the recorder
Re: Tips for using the Voxie Pro app for recording on the iPhone/iPod Touch [was Re: Voxie pro - clarification]
Hi Edward, Edward alonzo wrote: Wow what a great e-mail. One quick question is there a way to pause your recordings if you start up in express mode? Edward Alonzo and SeeingEye dog Andre Express mode just uses the quick start and stop of shaking, so I'd probably just take a series of separate recordings in Express mode and then join them together on my computer. If I wanted to append to an Express mode recording -- say I needed to capture something quickly, like instructions from someone -- I'd make the recording in Express mode, then if I had time to add commentary I would move to the Recorder screen to add. The sequence would go like this: 1. In Express mode shake to start and then shake again to stop recording 2. Touch the Recordings button at the bottom center and quickly double tap anywhere on the screen 3. Flick right 4 times to the more info button and double tap anywhere on the screen (this is now on the All Recordings screen, and the flicks take you from the Categories button to the All Recordings screen name, Edit button, name of the last Express recording, and then its more info button) 4. Flick right 4 times to the Record button and double tap anywhere on the screen to append to your original recording and double tap again to stop (these flicks take you from the name of the recording, e.g. Express 1, to the time information fields 0:00 of 1:50, for example, to the Record button.) 5. Flick right 3 times to the Title button and double tap anywhere on the screen, then use the delete key of the virtual keyboard to delete the Express 1 name and type in another name. Double tap the Done button at the bottom right of the virtual keyboard when you're finished. 6. Touch the Categories button and double tap. Touch the picker item and swipe up or down to select a category, then flick left to Done and double tap to commit changes. 7. Touch the Actions button at the bottom right and double tap. Double tap the Save Recordings button at the top of the list. 8. You'll be back at the All Recordings page with focus on the Categories button. Just double tap to go up a level to the Select Category page. Now if you go down the list view and choose the category you selected from the picker item, you'll find your newly named recording in this folder. If the existing categories (e.g. Great Ideas, Lectures, Meetings, Reminders, To Do, etc.) aren't enough for you, use the Add button at the top right (or two flicks right from where you enter the Select Category page) to custom create a new folder. You can customize your preferences with the Settings button (at the bottom right). For example, you can set the app to open at the Express Mode page when the app is launched. Or you could have recordings sent to yourself or a friend or contact after an Express recording is finished. (I have my action set to Save here.) You can also select the Audio quality of the recording at the Settings screen, but you probably want to leave it to the normal encoding setting for most purposes. If I needed to have the Express mode clips joined into a single recording, I'd probably transfer the tracks to my computer using the VoxieSync button on the Recordings page, and then open them up in sound editor like Amadeus Pro (for the Mac), which can join tracks, convert to mp3 or other format, and perform noise editng. If these were separate meeting notes I'd probably keep them as snippets, edit the names of the tracks before transferring them, then add them all into iTune (where I would convert them to mp3), but then put them into the same album by using File Get Info to edit tag entries of selected tracks. A podcaster would probably make a lot more use of this app than I do, since there are other features for long recording described at the Bottle Rocket support site. HTH Cheers, Esther On Dec 19, 2009, Esther wrote: Hi Chris, I posted the information about Voxie Pro. I'll interleave answers to each point after your questions and comments. I'm also cc'ing this to the Macvisionaries list, which uses an easily searchable secondary archive at the Mail Archive web site that supports access key navigation, searching by poster, date range, wild cards and a whole lot of options that make it easier to find and link to old posts, in case these questions come up again, since this reply contains fairly detailed instructions and recommendations for using Voxie Pro. Chris Moore wrote: Hello, I was using voxie pro last evening. In an earlier thread someone pointed out that you could send your recordings to your computer. I didn't find this option under the actions, but I did successfully email a recording to myself. You can transfer files directly to your computer from Voxie Pro without mailing them, but you do this from the Recordings screen after choosing All Recordings or a specific folder category for
