Re: Recorder

2006-03-09 Thread Dean Martineau
Julie, there are lots of ways to do what you want to do. People have been talking a lot about Replay AV and that program lets you record online radio programs onto your hard drive while you still work at the computer. If you want to just capture a short bit of JAWS speaing, you can use windo

Re: Pandora.com

2006-03-05 Thread Dean Martineau
Yes it would be great if we could use it, and at present, we definitely can't. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This lis

Re: PANDORA

2006-03-04 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi, Paul. If you're sending out tips on how to access Pandora, I think you shold send them to the list, because I tried with JFW 7 and couldn't get anywhere. If you're sending them privately, please include me. thanks. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help,

Re: Book Port or BookCourier?

2006-03-03 Thread Dean Martineau
I'm not a good judge of sound quality, as I have never trained my ear to be too discriminating, but I believe the quality is good. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, s

Re: Book Port or BookCourier?

2006-03-03 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Here are some thoughts regarding these two devices: 1. Book Port plays books from RFB&D, Book Courier does not. 2. Bok Port is a little more complicated. On the flip side, Book Port has capabilities to process text that Courier does not have. 3. Book Port is well supported by America

Re: some help with gold wave.

2006-02-28 Thread Dean Martineau
Ok, I do this all the time, so I'll tell you what I've figured out. When you enter the time Warp dialog, arrow through the presets. You want to find one that uses the similarity algorithm. I double the speed, and I can't remember if the present called '200 per cent via similarity" was already

batch processing in Sound Forge

2006-02-14 Thread Dean Martineau
I have questions about batch processing in Sound Forge, version 8 and also using the external batch processing module available with earlier versions. Right now I have the earlier version, and can't figure out how to do what I want to do with it. I want to add effects to numbers of files. I

Re: Total Recorder Tutorial

2006-02-02 Thread Dean Martineau
I am gradually completing a Total Recorder tutorial as part of the Sound Computing series. So far, two major portions are complete, with at least one more to follow. Sound Computing costs $9.00 for a series of fifty articles, or at least fifteen hours of reviews, mini-tutorials and other artic

Re: surprising discovery

2006-02-02 Thread Dean Martineau
What's to explain? Sound Forge is a more polished and highly-developed program than Goldwave. I use Goldwave, but for most things, Sound Forge is at least its equal. So, while I haven't tested it, it doesn't surprise me that its converters are faster than Goldwave's. Dean _

Re: surprising discovery

2006-02-01 Thread Dean Martineau
Well, perhaps the considerable price difference between the two programs is an explanation. Sound Forge is in many ways more powerful than Goldwave. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscri

Re: nhl.com and their audio feeds?

2006-01-23 Thread Dean Martineau
I've found a few stations that stream Westwood One football broadcasts. A fun site in this regard is www.thegamelive.com, one which I originally discovered through an archive search of this list. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and

Re: book port

2006-01-15 Thread Dean Martineau
I seldom, perhaps never, hear any fundamental complaints about the unit. There are things people might like to see changed, but a very high percentage of users are very pleased with the Book Port. I've only seen one on resale on one of the buy-sell lists for the blind. I love mine. Dean

windows media player and dvd's

2006-01-08 Thread Dean Martineau
To play dvd's using Windows Media Player, you need a software add-on. A free one is VLC Media Player. This link takes you to the Windows download page: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html I believe Don from this list was the source of my knowledge of this program. Dean

RE: Total Recorder: Appending To A File

2005-12-31 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Make sure that Append to recording is active, as opposed to Insert, on the play/Record menu. Then hit Ctrl-End to go to the end of the current recording. Now record, and the new recording should be appended to the original. I just did it and it works, with V5.3 Pro, and I don't think thi

Re: Total Recorder: Appending To A File

2005-12-30 Thread Dean Martineau
the answer to both questions is yes, you can append and you can join files together. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Spanish text-to-speech options?

2005-12-15 Thread Dean Martineau
What options exist for text-to-speech for Spanish texts? I'm familiar with EloQuence and ViaVoice; what else exists and how are the results? Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from t

TotalRecorder instruction becoming available

2005-12-14 Thread Dean Martineau
As part of the 50-article Sound Computing series, I have produced one article detailing setup of Total Recorder, and two articles addressing the program tangentially. More articles will follow. The 50-article series costs a total of $9.00 to access. You can read about the project, including i

usb sound cards

2005-12-07 Thread Dean Martineau
I am looking for recommendations of usb sound cards to use with a laptop to allow me to make better recordings, both of my voice and of my voice and the software speech so I can create training materials. I would also like the card to have a line in jack if such a thing exists on a usb sound

Re: Listening while recording with GoldWave

2005-11-21 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. The trick to monitoring a recording is to go into playback properties for your volume control, find the line in control, and unmute it by clicking the box with the space bar. Then you'll hear whatever is going into your line in, and you can set the playback volume independent of the rec

Re: Goldwave help

2005-11-21 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi, Reed. You need to go into the windows Volume Control, also accessible from the Control Properties dialog of Goldwave, and choose the line in jack as your recording source. right now your source appears to be wave output.. Dean ___ PC-Audio Lis

Re: how to insure propper time from total recorder scheduler

2005-11-20 Thread Dean Martineau
Total Recorder can trim silence if you want it to. It could also be told to stop recording when silence occurs for a certain length of time, which isn't what you would want obviously but is a nice program capability. Marty, when I say that it takes fewer keystrokes to set duration than it doe

Re: how to insure propper time from total recorder scheduler

2005-11-19 Thread Dean Martineau
I usually use the duration feature, checking that box and then choosing the duration, just because it takes fewer keystrokes to do, but what you did to set the time is completely correct. I'm wondering if the connection could have dropped during the hour you were recording, such that only 52

Re: The Good Old Days (Was Mp3 players)

2005-11-14 Thread Dean Martineau
The time marker feature especially sets the Winamp scripts out and makes this player more useful than any other. To further stir up the pot, then I'll duck, while Window-Eyes offers numerous advantages, this is functionality that Window-Eyes users will never have with Winamp because their pr

Re: is there such a pluggin?

2005-11-12 Thread Dean Martineau
TotalRecorder lets you record an mp3 stream silently while you work on the same computer using JFW and software speech. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a bla

to upgrade or not: Sound Forge 6 to 8, with or without Snowman scripts

2005-11-11 Thread Dean Martineau
As the subject line asks, is the upgrade from Sound Forge 6 to 8 worth doing? Does the answer change if one is or is not using the Snowman scripts? What is the cost to upgrade? Thanks. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more..

may have solved the Radio Caroline Recording problem

2005-11-07 Thread Dean Martineau
A few weeks ago, Peter Scanlon wrote asking how to record the stream of Radio Caroline, since the particular high-quality stream he wanted to record does not seem to lend itself to simply typing the Url into TotalRecorder's Run dialog. I think I've figured out how to do it. The solution tak

RE: ifp 999

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Martineau
Yes, Jonathan, I've been following your r-1 explorations. The battery life is a limitation, and so is the price. For what I'll do, I suspect the IRiver will work for half the price or less, but we'll see. For that matter, I'd love the new Plextalk, but that's a little expensive! Dean _

Re: ifp 999

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Martineau
How unusable is the proprietary software for transferring files? Can a competent user of the JAWS cursor or Window-Eyes mouse pointer use it? If I get one of these, I would want to transfer the occasional recording to the computer, not do a lot of transfers, and not use it as a mass storage o

Re: ifp 999

2005-10-31 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. How do the IRiver 799 or 899do in terms of recording with the internal mike in a class or group setting? Are they tolerable for that? Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from thi

Re: Trying to record Radio Caroline in total Recorder

2005-10-31 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. I tried to solve this one, but wasn't motivated enough to download their plug-in etc. I would try checking the first checkbox on the advanced tab, which opens the mini-browser. With it, you can navigate to the Radio Caroline page and thence to the correct Url, and probably capture that Url

Re: setting up total recorder.

2005-10-31 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Unfortunately, with 5.3, the buttons in Total Recorder aren't as useful as they were before. Fortunately, all those button functions have keyboard equivalents. So, to record, hit Ctrl-R. You can find lists of the keyboard shortcuts in the manual and in help and you can modify them at lea

Re: buttons in total recorder 5.3 nott labeled

2005-10-22 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Indeed, the buttons in tR5.3 are not labeled, and this works the same in JFW as with Window-Eyes. The problem is minimized by the fact that there are keyboard shortcuts for all functions provided by the buttons. Part of the problem may be that they have streamlined the display so that bu

Re: questions regarding total recorder scheduler

2005-10-18 Thread Dean Martineau
Yes, Ann is correct. You can schedule a recording to start and stop with the standard edition, but you already have to be connected to the sound source. Or you can schedule a playback, using TR as an alarm clock. With Professional, you can tell the program to connect to a Url at the given tim

Re: digital recorders?

2005-10-12 Thread Dean Martineau
As it happens, a demonstration appeared today on BlindCoolTech, www.blindcooltech.com. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

controlling winamp volume, was: Question for you steve

2005-10-09 Thread Dean Martineau
The Winamp volume can be regulated with arrows in the Winamp main window such that Winamp and JAWS volumes are set independently. Concise and efficient coverage of this matter is easy to come by if you use JAWS. Go to the JAWS help topic on winamp, choose Getting Started, then Optimizing Wina

the finnish PaceMaker developer and his availability

2005-10-07 Thread Dean Martineau
No, I really meant winter. He is busy outdoors in summer, and it was summer when I wrote to him. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL P

Re: Recording streams and not software speech

2005-10-07 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi, Ann. The only way I know to record streams without capturing software speech that you generate while using the computer is to use Total Recorder and to use its software recording option, which works splendidly for most and terribly for a few people. In addition, when capturing mp3 stream

Re: Pacemaker Plugin for Winamp?

2005-10-07 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. It depends on which version of the PaceMaker plug-in you are using. The latest version does not interact well with either JFW or Window-Eyes. If you go to the home page, http://www.iki.fi/oparviai/pacemaker/ then to the downloads page, you can choose the old versions. There was a small

Re: total recorder/software or sound board options

2005-10-07 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. TotalRecorder seems to be a program that works for many very well and fails miserably for some. As Russell said, you can always use the soundboard option for all your recordings, but by doing so you lose the advantage the program offers of making digital recordings, and also letting you u

dvd codecs?

2005-09-17 Thread Dean Martineau
Is there any way to watch/listen to dvd's free on a pc running Windows xp? If so, how? Thanks. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROT

Re: SUZUKI Q-CHORD

2005-09-13 Thread Dean Martineau
I call it the musical instrument for those of us who can't play a real instrument. It's actually very nice. They call it a digital songcard guitar. It has many of the virtues of the autoharp but it's more powerful, also electronic. Also, perhaps borderline for this list. Dean __

Re: SUZUKI Q-CHORD

2005-09-13 Thread Dean Martineau
Yes, the QChord is very usable by the blind thanks to the efforts of Mackie McBride who has written a manual for blind Qchord users. I have it and you can probably find it by a simple search. Dean At 03:26 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote: >Hi all > >Is the Suzuki q-chord accessible for blind persons? >

Re: Windows Media question

2005-08-25 Thread Dean Martineau
Things to look at regarding Windows Media Player: highlight songs in Windows Explorer and use the context menu. Choices there include add to playlist and play using Windows Media Player. Once you get the playlist built, or start playing, ctrl-h turns shuffle on. Dean _

Re: timer

2005-08-13 Thread Dean Martineau
If you go into Goldwave's control properties, on the recording tab, there are two checkboxes that work together to create a primitive recording timer. The timer check box, once checked, lets you set a time and day for the start of the recording. The level activated check box lets you set a sou

Re: Recording.

2005-08-07 Thread Dean Martineau
Total Recorder Professional Edition costs $47 US or so. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Total recorder and goldwave.

2005-08-07 Thread Dean Martineau
Installing total Recorder would not affect GoldWave in any way. The Replay Radio idea might be a good one for you. Goldwave has the weakest scheduler of the three packages. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www

Re: Recording.

2005-08-07 Thread Dean Martineau
If you buy online, you will get the unlock code for the program nearly imediately. The demo is fine but it puts beeps in the recording. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: Recording.

2005-08-06 Thread Dean Martineau
Total Recorder Professional Edition is designed for this task. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Latest version of winamp and bookmarks

2005-08-01 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Maybe I missed this, but what is a good place to grab the version that people believe to be the best one, as distinct from the newest version? Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscrib

Total Recorder comments

2005-07-15 Thread Dean Martineau
Let me try to respond to a couple points people have asked about. I love Total Recorder under Windows xp; didn't like it under 98. My favorite way to tell TR Pro what stream to record is the second check box on the Advanced pate of the scheduler. this way I don't deal with the mini-browse

Re: PC and Recording

2005-07-13 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. Either stereo or mono mix should let you capture streaming audio. Also, you may have more options than you know. In the volume control, hit alt-p, then select properties. Tab to the list of choices and choose recording. Tab again and there will probably be a list of sound sources whic

Re: total recorder query

2005-07-08 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi. As long as your friend has something like Goldwave to record the sound, with the volume control set to capture wave output, it should work. I mention this in case you were expecting to use Windows Sound Recorder. Dean ___ PC-Audio List Help,

Re: Total recorder question

2005-07-08 Thread Dean Martineau
Hi, Don. I finally tested that Total Recorder problem, to review, we're in the advanced dialog of the Auto-stop recording feature telling the program when to stop recording. The second check box lets us say that if nothing is recorded for a given number of seconds, the recording should end. I fi

Re: Total recorder question

2005-07-06 Thread Dean Martineau
Don, good mystery. I think the culprit here may be phantom information from a screen reader. In sum, I'm going to suggest that you write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the question, explaining that you use a screen reader, then please share your answer with me. They are very responsive. I haven

cdex help

2005-07-05 Thread Dean Martineau
Ken, I think you may find those songs buried in your My Music folder somewhere. You have control over where cdex puts its files. Somebody wrote a good post on the subject, and I put it up as an auto-responder as part of the Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday newsletter. to get the post, send a bl

windows media player and mp3 and m3u files

2005-07-04 Thread Dean Martineau
Greetings. I havelaunched a podcast, Baha'i Perspectives. The files are located at http://bahai-perspectives.info. I make my podcast available for regular streaming and downloading for those who prefer this method of access. Two people who use Windows Media Player instead of Winamp to access

Re: Goldwave Question

2005-04-18 Thread Dean Martineau
Yes, you can insert silence using goldwave. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from

Re: Using Goldwave with JAWS

2005-04-18 Thread Dean Martineau
You use ctrl-f9 to launch the recording; keystrokes are all summarized in help. To set line-in as your source, you use the system volume control, which you can access through Goldwaves control properties dialot or the volume control on your system. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech

Re: GOLDWAVE RECORDING VOLUME PROBLEM

2005-04-06 Thread Dean Martineau
If you're using the microphone, you may need to turn off the 20db boost in the advanced settings for the microphone on the recording properties page of the volume control. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Live 365 makes Jaws crash when leaving a radio station

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Martineau
For me, it's an easy choice to use Winamp over their default player. Dean To learn about Sound Computing magazine, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: resetting file downloads to prompt

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Martineau
You need to go into Folder Options off the options menu in My Computer, find and edit the file type. In the meantime, you can download by arrowing to the link of the mp3 or ogg, then hitting right mouse button (JFW) or application key (Wiondow-Eyes) and then the letter A for Save Target As. D

Re: How do I erase a cdrw

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Martineau
Disregarding the Premier burner, since I haven't used it, put your cdrw in the drive. Now go to My Computer, arrow to that drive, and hit either shift-F10 or your application key. Arrow through the resulting menu and one of your choices should be Erase CDRW. Try that, and ask if there are a

Re: Converting MPG

2005-03-30 Thread Dean Martineau
In the worst case scenario, you can install Goldwave from www.goldwave.com and use the demo. If all you're doing is converting files, you won't reach the per-session keystroke limit. Dean For information about Sound Computing magazine, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive conc

portable voice recording options

2005-03-29 Thread Dean Martineau
What are my choices for a portable device that I can use for voice recordings using an external mike (56 KBPS mp3,) which I could transfer to a pc for editing if need be? I would like to be able to make simple voice corrections, that is, record over a part I just recorded and want to change.

Re: Decisions, decisions! Anapod explorer or Muvo?

2005-03-20 Thread Dean Martineau
One is not required with the IPod Shuffle to have one's music in shuffle mode. You can listen to files in order just like in any other player, but it has that name because since it has no screen, many people will choose the shuffle approach. Dean __

Re: Total Recorder question

2005-03-19 Thread Dean Martineau
The short answer from looking at the manual is, no, you can't launch a scheduler item if it requires a password. That is an unfortunate gap in the program. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Decisions, decisions! Anapod explorer or Muvo?

2005-03-19 Thread Dean Martineau
Are you sure that Anapod Explorer supports the Shuffle? A new version was due out that would support it, but if that has not appeared, it does not. On Blindtech people seem to like the program. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: I-pod questions

2005-03-15 Thread Dean Martineau
Tim, according to the review in AccessWatch, the IPod is supposed to have the ability to play audio books at faster speeds, but the reviewer couldn't make it work. Have you tried, and with any success? I'm still looking for a way to speed books up without having recourse to expensive devices m

Re: recording live stream with Goldwave?

2005-03-02 Thread Dean Martineau
Hello. Goldwave will record whatever the Soundcard takes in. The most common error when trying to record something other than a microphone with Goldwave is that users do not set the windows volume control to capture the right input. If you want to capture Internet audio using GoldWave, you

Re: recording question with live 365

2005-03-01 Thread Dean Martineau
I suggest your recording volume in Total Recorder could be lowered. I don't have very discriminating hearing, but I've recording Live365 streams with Total Recorder and not gotten distortion. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED

speech compression options?

2005-02-27 Thread Dean Martineau
I'd love to get a portable device with speech compression. It doesn't look to me like the Edirol Jerry wants to review has it. I know about Bookport, Bookcourrier and the expensive gizmo from Plextalk, but I'm looking for other options. Right now what I do is to run files through the Winamp

Re[2]: total recorder questions

2005-02-27 Thread Dean Martineau
Indeed, the manual states that, if most of us recommend, you only use the total Recorder driver when the program is active, as opposed to replacing your usual sound drivers with the Total Recorder driver all the time, that you must start a Total Recorder recording first before the source you wa

Re: total recorder not recording

2005-02-27 Thread Dean Martineau
JoAnn, we should start simply. If you have Winamp 5.x and are running Win xp, that's ideal, but that's what I use so I know it should be able to work. The scheduler shouldn't have hurt anything, but let's not use it until you can get a recording. Find a nice small mp3 file to play with; lau

Re: Wavepad questions;:

2005-02-25 Thread Dean Martineau
The one program which allows you to capture audio streams simultaneously while using software speech, and does not capture the software speech at all, is Total Recorder. Perhaps other software has this ability, but in my experience, Goldwave and Sound Forge do not have it. Probably Wavepad d

RE: total recorder questions

2005-02-25 Thread Dean Martineau
Kevin, make sure both occurrences of Use Directly are checked in settings. For the moment, make sure you aren't using the Accelerated recording function under Recording Source and Perameters. If your screen reader conflicts aren't solved by this, and you're using JAWS, I or the folks at High

Re: info about creative muvo2

2005-02-25 Thread Dean Martineau
If I were in the market for a hard-drive mp3 player and file carrier, I would try to find one of the machines that supports rockbox. Go to www.rockbox.org for the list of players. You can get some good deals on E-bay for some of them, and at least one is still made. Dean To receive concise w

Re: total recorder questions

2005-02-24 Thread Dean Martineau
As for recording in stereo, since most of what I record is spoken word material, I confess to not having tackled that issue. Perhaps one of the other Total Recorder users can comment on whether they have succeeded in making a stereo recording. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech upda

Re: total recorder questions

2005-02-24 Thread Dean Martineau
I very much like Total Recorder. I notice no problems with its sound quality, and it can produce mp3, I think also ogg files. Dean To receive concise weekly adaptive tech updates, send a blank message to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List

is there accessible program for recording audio streams

2005-02-21 Thread Dean Martineau
I am a big fan of Total Recorder from www.highcriteria.com for recording Internet streams. It is designed for this purpose, so has a much more sophisticated scheduler than Goldwave. Also, I can record streams while using software speech and the speech is not recorded. Dean To receive concise

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