Windows User Guide
Reference Guide: 5.3 Changing Colours
You can choose from a number of built in Colour Keys to better help you annotate your recording or create your own. The colour Key you select is stored within the Project file and loaded when you reopen the project: If you edit your key and share ...
Reference Guide: 5.2 Colouring Sections
Sections can be highlighted using different background colours. These can be selected from the Audio Side Bar: The boundary line below each group can be dragged to reveal or hide colours. To colour a section while in the Audio pane, click in the ...
Reference Guide: 5.1 Colouring Audio Chunks
Chunks of audio can be marked using colours. These can be selected from the Audio Side Bar: The boundary line below each group can be dragged to reveal or hide colours. To colour a chunk of audio place the cursor in the chunk (if the cursor is ...
Reference Guide: 5. Colouring Tools
You can use colour to categorise similar sections, highlight important snippets of audio and gather whole sections or audio chunks into a new project. A selection of colours can be chosen from the Side Bar and you can pick ...
Reference Guide: 4.16 Audio Linking
You can now create direct links between your Text and the Audio Chunks in a project. Creating Links Recording - Whilst recording we create a link between the audio chunks and any text that you enter. Typing from the Audio Pane - If you have focus ...
Reference Guide: 4.15 Exporting Audio
The Export Button allows you to export in five ways: When exporting audio you can select whether to export with changes to your playback settings (this is on by default); Speed (excluding export as video), Volume, Audio Clean-Up settings and ...
Reference Guide: 4.14 Editing Audio
Editing As well as editing in the Text Pane and Reference Pane in the usual way, you can edit in the Audio Pane, or in all panes at once. Editing in the Audio Pane allows you delete, copy, paste, split and merge audio chunks. Editing in all panes ...
Reference Guide: 4.13 Voice Shift
You can alter the voice of all the audio. This is useful where you have recorded yourself and you don't like listening to your own voice or if you have a hearing impairment and prefer to listen at a different pitch. You can choose from any of the ...
Reference Guide: 4.12 Audio Cleanup
We have a number of features to allow you to optimise your audio during playback (and export), you can find the Audio Clean-up options on the toolbar. These features do not completely remove the noise as this can adversely affect the audio that you ...
Reference Guide: 4.11 Typing In The Audio Pane
With the focus in the Audio Pane you can type without changing panes. Simply start typing and your text will go into the text pane. You return back to the audio pane when you hit Enter. The only exceptions are where the keys are Audio Pane Shortcuts ...
Reference Guide: 4.10 Speech Recognition
If you are a Dragon NaturallySpeaking user then you can get Audio Notetaker to transcribe your audio recordings into text. You can transcribe selected audio, sections or everything and have the text highlighted with the same colours as your audio. ...
Reference Guide: 4.9 Volume Control
We have introduced an option to automatically adjust the volume of your recording. This setting is On by default when you create a new project or when you open a project created in an older version. The setting can be found under Audio Cleanup on the ...
Reference Guide: 4.8 Audio Pane Shortcuts
You can use generic shortcut keys to control playback and positioning in the audio pane even when you are typing into the Reference or Text panes. However, it is usually easiest to change focus to the audio pane, so you can use the simplified set of ...
Reference Guide: 4.7 Zoom
If you have a lot of audio, you may prefer for the audio chunks to take up less space on the screen. You can temporarily change the audio pane with Zoom. This is a button in the bar at the top of the pane . By default Zoom just shortens each chunk to ...
Reference Guide: 4.6 Colouring Tools
Colouring tools can be used to categorise similar sections, highlight important snippets of audio and gather together sections of images, text and audio into a new file. For more details see the main section on Colouring Tools.
Reference Guide: 4.5 Section Numbering and Time Codes
The clock icon at the top of the Audio Pane will display the section number as well as the time code for the start and end of each section and the duration in brackets. If you want to always show the section numbering and time codes then you can ...
Reference Guide: 4.4 Sections
You can break your audio recordings into sections to highlight an important point or a change in topic. Sections are displayed with an alternating background shade. The base colour for the two shades is set in App Menu → System → Settings → Themes. ...
Reference Guide: 4.3 Audio Cursor Indicator
During playback and recording the audio cursor can now move off-screen. When you are focused in the Text or Reference Panes the audio cursor will move off-screen but the view will not change; this allows you to continue to work with your text. The ...
Reference Guide: 4.2 Playback Control
The Audio toolbar has the usual Play, Pause (icon changes), Forward and Rewind controls: Forward and rewind will always jump to the start of a chunk so you can quickly judge where you are. There is also a playback speed control which allows you to ...
Reference Guide: 4.1 Audio Chunks
As audio is imported into Audio Notetaker it is analysed and broken into chunks. Speakers naturally pause when talking. These pauses are automatically picked up by Audio Notetaker and each break in speech is displayed as a gap in the line of the ...
Reference Guide: 4 Audio Pane
The Audio Pane has it's own cursor; If you are working in another Pane the Audio Pane cursor will still be visible and certain actions, like inserting sections, will always affect the chunk/section that the Audio Pane cursor is in. In This Section ...
Reference Guide: 3.8 Index Marks
Audio Notetaker will recogniserecognize index marks inserted into WMA, MP3 and WAV files by most Olympus recorders, T-Marks inserted into MP3 and WAV files by Sony recorders and the bookmarks in your LiveScribe *.pencast files. We also support the ...
Reference Guide: 3.7 Supported Audio Formats
Audio Notetaker supports the following audio file formats: *.wav *.wma *.opus *.ogg *.mp3 *.aac *.m4a *.mp4 *.mov *.pencast If you are running Vista, you will need QuickTime or iTunes installed to import m4a, mp4 or mov files. You will only be able ...
Reference Guide: 3.6 Audio File Conversion
Audio Notetaker converts all audio into Opus, by default. Conversion on import is a useful option because: If your audio is uncompressed (.WAV), an hour's recording is very large and makes ran file loading and saving slow, as well as using up a ...
Reference Guide: 3.5 Audio Replace
Audio replace lets you swap a poor recording for a better quality one, while keeping all your slides, text, sections and colours intact. The feature will let you record with a digital recorder at the front of a lecture while you sit further back ...
Reference Guide: 3.4 Importing Audio From The Cloud - Dropbox
Audio Notetaker can import audio or open Audio Notetaker projects from any folder on your computer. By default Audio Notetaker will search your Dropbox folders when you open the All Audio Files Tab and All Projects Tab. For other Cloud folders; ...
Reference Guide: 3.3 Importing a File from your computer
Unless you are recording live, you will need to import your audio into Audio Notetaker. If you have recorded using the Sonocent Recorder App see here for how to transfer your files, if you have files on a digital recorder then you can transfer ...
Reference Guide: 3.2 Importing Audio From A Digital Recorder
You can use Audio Notetaker to transfer your recordings from your digital recorder and import the file into an Audio Notetake Project. Your recorder needs to be set up as either a USB Mass Storage Device or a USB Composite Device to be recognised. A ...
Reference Guide: 3.1 Importing Files from The Sonocent Recorder App
You will need to first transfer your files from the app to your computer: Wifi Transfer iTunes Transfer File Sharing Files transferred from the app will be in a *.mran file format - these can be opened in Audio Notetaker in the usual way. And will ...
Reference Guide: 3 Importing Audio
You can import Audio from virtually any source; Importing from the Sonocent Recorder App Importing from a Digital Recorder Importing from your computer Importing from the cloud If you have a better quality audio file than the one you used to make ...
Reference Guide: 2.4 Capture My Presentation
You can record yourself giving a presentation, displaying the slides within Audio Notetaker or from within PowerPoint. This feature has been moved to the Tools button on the Toolbar: For users on a small screen this may be under the ...
Reference Guide: 2.3 Opus Encoding
Recording Audio Notetaker now records in the standardised Opus audio encoding system (standardised by the Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF). It is particularly suitable for Audio Notetaker as it combines technology from both audio (perceptual) ...
Reference Guide: 2.2 Audio Setup
Audio Notetaker will now record into the Opus format, see Opus Encoding for more information. You can allow Audio Notetaker to set the recording level automatically (on the Record button drop down menu), or you can set it manually yourself through ...
Reference Guide: 2.1 Device Selection
As well as importing an existing audio file, you can record audio live using the Record button You can only record into a blank section, or onto the end of a section which already has audio in. You can choose what to record; there are three options ...
Reference Guide: 2 Recording Audio
As well as importing an existing audio file, you can record audio live using the Record button You can only record into a blank section, or onto the end of a section which already has audio in. There are a number of options for you to choose from ...
Reference Guide: 1.5 Select Search Folders
The file manager does not check every folder in your computer for audio and Audio Notetaker files. It checks only: Folders which you have already used from within Audio Notetaker The default file copy location (Documents/Audio Notetaker Recordings ...
Reference Guide: 1.4 File Tags
Once you have imported an audio file or recorded live, the date and time of the recording will appear in the tagging fields at the top right of the Project tab. You can add a Title, Topic and Speaker to your file; just click on the tags to edit. ...
Reference Guide: 1.3.d Search Projects
You get this tab with App Menu → Manage → Search Projects Here you can search for text in all your Audio Notetaker projects, including most of the text in any slides you have imported. You can restrict your search by topic or speaker, though this ...
Reference Guide: 1.3.c Portable Device Manager
The Portable Devices Tab can be opened from the App menu (green button in the top left) → Manage, or from the Home Tab → Transfer → Both buttons open the Portable Device Manager. Use the Portable Device Manager to transfer your project files from ...
Reference Guide: 1.3.b All Audio Files Tab
The All Audio Files Tab can be opened from the App menu (green button in the top left) → Manage. You can also display this tab every time Audio Notetaker starts by choosing this option in Settings. This view shows all the supported audio files it ...
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