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Audacity
Digital Voice
Recorder
Professional Version
™
For Palm Treo 600, 650, 680, 700P, 755P, and
Centro Smartphones,
Palm LifeDrive, Zire 72, TX with external mic,
and Tungsten T, T2, T3, & C
Manual
Ver. 4.27
Revised 03-19-08
Audacity Audio
th
1540 N.E. 60 Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334
954-229-5050
www.AudacityAudio.com
©2008 Audacity Audio
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 1 Features.................................................................................................................................... 2 Minimum Requirements .......................................................................................................... 2 Audacity Software Installation .............................
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Warranties-Exclusive..............................................................................................................30 Limitations of Liability............................................................................................................30 Notice to Customers ..............................................................................................................................30 License of Software .........................................
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Audacity Introduction Audacity Audio introduces the Audacity Digital Voice Recorder Professional Version. Doctors, lawyers, executives, and other professionals have a need to become more and more productive. Computers help while the professional works from his office, but most computers are stationary and don’t help a mobile Doctor traveling from office to office or hospital to hospital. PDA’s (personal digital assistants), cell phones, and Smartphones (a combination cell phone / PDA) en
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Audacity Features · Over 4 hours of recording time available using a 256 MB SD Card with uncompressed 8 kHz files. Over 85 hours of compressed audio will fit on the same card. · 2 or 3 levels of compression (3 on the Tungsten C, Tungsten T3, Zire 72, LifeDrive, Treo 650, 680, 700P, 755P, & Centro), as well as 4 sampling rates of PCM uncompressed WAV storage. · Files may be recorded and stored in internal memory or directly to the SD card (Hard drive on LifeDrive). · Files are automati
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Audacity Audacity Software Installation The software is installed from a downloaded zip file. Run the setup program from the downloaded file. Follow the instructions on each screen. Note the destination directory. This is where the support files will be installed on your PC hard drive. It is recommended that you accept the default values (C:\Program Files\AST\. Then click Install. The Audacity Palm Installer screen allows you to select which PDA applications supplied with the Audacity S
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Audacity Memory Location and SD Cards Audacity lets you record directly to either Internal Memory or to the SD Card (Hard drive on the LifeDrive). Most people record to the SD Card because Internal Memory is usually limited and audio files can be quite large. The active memory location is displayed in the upper left corner of the Audacity Home Screen. The alternate memory location displays on the top line between the Delete Icon and the Power Icon. Tap the alternate memory icon to change
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Audacity pick the audio type that satisfies your taste. There are many more including the basic hardware and software. Palm provides the hardware. They generally do a good job, but there are major differences. In the paragraphs that follow, I will go into greater detail regarding differences in the Treo 650, 680, 700P, and the 755P. Audacity is excellent and flexible software. You're in good hands. Other things that affect audio quality are the speaker's voice. For instance, I tend to emp
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Audacity My wife and I went on a bike ride recently. We just got started when my wife complained that she was going back as her bike was broken and she couldn't continue. "My handle bar is broken. I can't ride like this." she complained. We stopped and examined it. In putting the bike in and out of the garage, the front tire got rotated 180 degrees. It was a pretty easy fix and she was all happy. The same goes for audio quality problems. Examine the problem. It's usually a pretty easy fix
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Audacity If the near or far end of the call is consistently louder than the other end, the balance can be adjusted by going to Options, Preferences, and under Mic Gain, choose the Phone pulldown. The near and far end mic gain can be individually adjusted. Caller ID Information can be captured using the Audacity Programmable Information Fields. The Audacity default settings are set to capture the phone number (either outgoing or incoming) and also the related name is found by doing a look
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Audacity AWI Structure AWI stands for Audacity WAV Information. It is a text file created whenever an audio file is created. It is a text file containing a wide variety of information. You don't see it on the handheld as it is hidden, but you will see it once you transfer the files to your PC. It provides the infrastructure to make Audacity Professional very "Intelligent". It is used by Audacity itself to keep track of, display, transport information, and process the WAV files. It is use
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Audacity Graphic Icons The screen soft button design overlays the control function icons on top of a graphic representing the handhelds navigation pad and other hardware buttons. The following chart displays the icons and their functions. These functions are completely programmable and are set using the Audacity Button Setup. Alarm or Alarm Setup Back Bookmark, Add Bookmark, Delete Delete File Edit File Information Field 1 to Field 7 (Refers to fields on the Recor
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Audacity Keyboard Menu None (No function defined for this button) Notepad Overwrite Page Down Page Up Palm Preference Pause Phone Application / Send Play Play Status Popup Menu Power / End Qmemo (Records to Quick Memo folder) Also, see the "Go To" functions (QMemo, Record and Append) Displays with an arrow. ©2008 Audacity Audio Page 10 of 31
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Audacity Record (Records to Record folder) Record Plus (Appends to selected file) Record Status Rewind Scan Back Scan Forward Scroll Down Scroll Up Send File (Wireless) Skip to the beginning of file. Sound (Red background indicates a phone call recording) Stop System Info (Battery and Memory) Tips, Information, Help Volume Down Volume Up ©2008 Audacity Audio Page 11 of 31
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Audacity Screen by Screen Details This section provides details of the default settings and icons of the Home Screen, Record Screen, and Playback screen. Home Screen When you first launch the Audacity application you are presented with the Home screen showing a list of existing files in the /Record folder. You can navigate to the desired file or folder by tapping on the desired file or by scrolling using the navigation pad. Double tapping on a filename will display a screen showing in
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Audacity Other Icons on Home Screen Int / SD This toggles between using the internal memory and the SD card for storage of recorded files. The current mode is shown at the top left of the screen. The unused memory icon is found to the left of the System Info lightning bolt. If your using SD memory, the folder name is also displayed. Delete File Select a file and then tap the box with the red X to delete it. Info Tapping the info icon will display our Help / Tutorial section. This
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Audacity PDA Buttons 1 and 4 These are set for Palm Preferences meaning they will function the same as your Palm settings. Under the Audacity Button Setup you can redefine the software buttons to be different than your hardware definitions. Button 1 on the Treos is phone and button 4 is power or Palm apps on the Treo 700P. PDA Buttons 2 and 3 Button 2 is Delete Bookmark and Button 3 is Add Bookmark. Suggestion: Set and delete bookmarks from the Playback Screen (accessed by pressing
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Audacity Pause / Resume The Center navigation pad is a toggle between Pause and Resume. Overwrite The Up navigation pad will Overwrite from the current position. This works similar to overwriting a file using a tape recorder. Stop Pressing Down on the navigation pad stops the Playback. Buttons 1 and 4 The outer two buttons are volume buttons on PDA models and Phone / Send and Power / End on Treo 600 and Treo 650. The Treo 680, 700P, and Centro uses Phone and Apps. They can be cha
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Audacity Return to:--Used to change the file return to location (Programmable field). Send to:--Used to change the send to destination (Programmable field). Work Type: – Change the work type. Priority: – Change the priority. Alarm Icon -- Set alarm for this file. File Folder Icon – Click here to add text comments. Phone Call Recording -- This message will display on recordings of phone calls on the Treo 650. Done – Return to home screen. Alarm Set Screen You can access the alarm set
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Audacity Options The Options menu offers the following items and their respective choices: Preferences There are tabs for setting parameters for general System options, Standard Recording file options, and QuickMemo file recording options System Tab Play Volume: Use the pull-down menu to select the preferred playback volume setting. This sets the initial playback volume when the application is launched. Choosing 'Last' for this value will set the playback level to its last used sett
