Try using Vertual Audio Cable for recording.
And a recording program like Audacity.
On 12/20/2011 1:59 AM, Richard Claypool wrote:
Hi,
I find the regular skype perfectly accessible, and have not found this
to be the killer app many have found. However, for a version 1
product, it's pretty nice, and will make the skype experience more
pleasant for many. I'm recommending it to a few friends who are, for
whatever reason, petrified of skype 4.x 5.x. It's a sad commentary
that GW had to do this, but ah well. They did, and good on skype for
putting this info out.
This is version 1, so my comments here may become invalidated at any
point in time.
Here's my impressions.
posatives
1. Clean interface.
2. works with fb, like I really care.
3. It uses about 10 meg less than skype on my machine. In an audio
tweet, I commended them for using a meg of ram, but that was a rogue
process left over for some reason.
4. It shows my skype out contacts with my regular contacts. This is
quite nice, if I'm just going down my list, looking for someone random
to call. Doesn't normally bother me, since I type in part of the
name. a note, you can't type in part of a name, and land there. You
hit w, and you're taken to the w, if you hit i for wiliam, you're
taken back to the is. Some people like the ability to type in names,
other don't. shrug.
5. More short cut keys to access things. Some of them I use, others
I don't, but it is a good thing to have.
6. Voicemails can be told to pop up, and you can play or delete with
different buttons. With skype talking, I've axidently hit the key
combo 3 times, and deleted a voicemail .. woopsies.
7. One does not have to tab over to the dialpad button. This should
be noted in the gwmicro manual. Once you've made a skypeout call, the
numbers maically work!
8. Well laid out manual.
things i don't like.
1. Not full access to options yet. This means your audio levels will
be controled by skype. It also means that you can't set things like
who can chat you or call you. As far as I can tell, what you set in
regular skype does not count in this version. I have to do more
testing first.
2. It assumes that you want to join someone to a conference. If
you're talking to some friends, and your mom calls, it would be nice
to be given a choice. Put people on hold, talk to mom, return to
original call. Since I use skype in, this is a real problem for me.
I hate when programs make assumptions grrrrrrr.
3. As far as I can tell, the notifications are an all or nothing
toggle. There's no way to detell this interface which notifications
are spoken, and which are kept silent.
4. There's no way, to my knowledge to turn sounds off. Even if
notifications are off, this program keeps bonging away. Easily fixed,
replace the files with silent ones, but why should I have to do this?
Skype reports someone as online or whatever, a program like windows
messenger only bings when someone actually signs in. So, with
constant status changes, it can grow noisy rather quickly.
5. This may not matter to many, but if you're going to use an addon
to record skype calls, you'll still have to keep your regular skype
around. No interface to external programs.
6. I'm such a geek that I used the skype:/skypename to create
shortcut commands to call someone, can't use them. Btw, if skype is
unloaded, and one uses a skype:/skypename command, it will load skype,
and call. I have this setup for a few people, never let it be said
that lazyness doens't pay off. It's such a minor and trivial thing
that I only mention it for any one else who has something like this
setup.
bugs I've found.
1. Sometimes, when I alt tab away, the program closes itself.
2. I had to restart NVDA, it switched to sap. I'm not sure if one
can change the SAPI voice or not, didn't see a way to do it, but maybe
I missed it.
I think that, for many people, this will make their skype experience
much more productive and beneficial. I can't say that personally, but
I do eagerily await the future of this program. I think now is the
time to give feedback, and more importantly, tell them how much this
program means to you.
Rickness
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