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Open the Find and Play Recordings dialog box using the menu File -> Find and Play or by Pressing the Toolbar button.

All recordings in the specified recording folder will be listed.

VRS lists the Recording, Duration, Format Type and the Dial(DTMF) or Data associated with each recording file.

Playing a Recording

To play a recording select it and press F9. When the Play Control Box opens you can move back and forward within the recording using the left and right arrow keys. To move to the beginning press Home. To move to the end press End. Press PgUp/PgDn for the previous or next tracks respectively and Enter to end.

Edit Audio

This will open the selected recording in Wavepad: A full featured professional sound editor for Windows. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more. The program is designed to be a very easy and intuitive to use for audio editing. Within minutes you will be able to open or record a file and edit it. But if you take time to explore the other features you will find many powerful tools for editing audio designed with the professional sound engineer in mind. Wavepad comes in two versions a free basic version and a masters edition. Downloading this software will provide you with a free trial version.

Save As

This will save the selected recording to a different position in a local or networked folder.

Send to Email Now

The selected file will be attached to a default email and sent to the address you specify.

Burn to CD-ROM

The selected files will be imported into Express Burn. Express Burn is also the fastest CD/DVD writing program in the world using proprietary optimizing systems. It will also create an index file which it will begin burning immediately to a data CD.

Compress and Backup

File sizes getting too large or do you wish to ensure your have a backup of your audio? Compress and Backup will provide you the choice of burning straight to a CD after compression or to a Backup Folder. It can compress in 3 different formats. The choice of compression depends on the particular audio settings that determined the quality of the sound file that was recorded. Please test that the compression type is sufficient in size and quality of audio for a sample file. Compressing and backing up does not effect your original audio recording.

Convert Sound File

Converts the audio file(s) to a different format using Switch. Switch audio file converter is very easy to use. With the selected files added into Switch, select the format you want to use, and then click the convert button. Switch supports converting to wav (PCM, ADPCM+, aLaw+, uLaw+, and others), mp3, au, aif/aiff, gsm, vox, raw, ogg, flac, .rss, .amr+ and more.

Transcribe

Allow simple and easy dictation of files using Express Scribe. This computer transcriber application features variable speed wave playback, foot pedal operation, file management and more. This program is free.

Deleting a Recording

To delete recordings, select them and click on the Delete button. You can select more than one recording by holding down the Shift key while selecting.

To save recordings as a wav, mp3 or gsm file on your hard drive, select the recording and click "Save As". Enter the file name and click OK.

Folder Tab

By default, Find and Play lists only recordings in the local record folder.

You can change the default folder for holding your audio files or you can change the alternative folder to suit your needs.

If you want to play files over your local area network, install this program on the other computer and point it to the folder that the Find and Play Window is referencing.

View Filter Tab

The View Filter Tab allows searching and filtering on what is displayed in the list view.

You can search or filter what is shown by the text in each column, by the duration of the audio or by the date of the recording.

If you are using DTMF or caller ID logging (or other data), you can search for the recordings that contain that data (eg. to or from a particular phone number). Tick the "Show only recordings containing data" box, enter the data you are searching for and then click "Update Now".

Speech Search Tab

On the 'Speech Search' tab you can choose to search for keywords in the recordings. You must select an installed Speech Recognition engine (eg. Dragon Naturally Speaking, IBM Via Voice). Current we only support engines that are compliant with SAPI 4.0 (not the later and current version 5). Microsoft supplies a free 'Speech Command and Control' engine (filename actcnc.exe) and this can be located using an internet search engine. Please note any speech engine used must support Context Free Grammars. You can also optionally select a trained speaker for the engine.

Play Options Tab

Set the sound device you use to play your audio file, also set the Variable Slow and Fast Speeds that you can use the vary the speed of playback. If multiple times are found on your speech search clicking on the file will provide a list of the "key found at" times. Speech searching places a bookmark to hold the place in the audio when multiple times are found so you can jump to the keyword.