High Criteria Inc. Announces the Immediate Availability of Total Recorder Professional Edition, Total Recorder Standard Edition and Total Recorder Developer Edition, Versions 5.2.

May 24, 2005, Toronto, Canada

High Criteria Inc, a world leader in computer audio recording systems, today announced the immediate availability of new versions of its flagship product, Total Recorder. The Standard Edition, Professional Edition and the Developer Edition have all been upgraded to Version 5.2. At the same time, a new add-on for Automatic Gain Control (AGC) and Speech Enhancement has been made available. The AGC and Speech Enhancement add-on will be of interest to any user who is recording the spoken word, as opposed to those who might record music or other audio sounds.

In addition to other standard maintenance, Total Recorder V5.2 offers a number of new features including:

• Support for the new Automatic Gain Control (AGC) and Speech Enhancement add-on. This add-on performs a number of functions designed to enhance recording of the spoken word. Functions include:
• Automatically controlling the sound level through digital algorithms.
• Correcting the dynamic range of spoken word recordings.
• Supression of background noise.
• A Voice Activity Detector (VAD) that will de-activate the AGC when speech is not detected.
• Total Recorder now supports the FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) compression codec.
• An automatic recording level adjustment that will attempt to set the optimal level for recording.
• The ability to exclude the loudest levels during normalization.
• Issues for users recording Skype sessions have been resolved in this new release. Skype users must update their Skype program to V1.1.0.79 or later and update to V5.2 of Total Recorder.
• The Recording source and Parameters dialog has been updated to allow specification of an input device for different recordings. This allows for different input devices on different scheduled recordings.
• You can now copy tag information from one file to another.
• The Options - Settings dialog has been updated and enhanced.

Both the Professional Edition and Developer Edition V5.2 have been enhanced with the following new features:

• A Pause-reduction feature has been added. This feature helps to reduce the duration of pauses which are present for example, between Internet radio programs.

All Total Recorder V5.2 Editions are immediately available and may be downloaded for evaluation and purchase from the High Criteria Web Site at www.highcriteria.com. The evaluation versions of the programs will record for unlimited lengths of time, but will add an audible noise about every 60 seconds.

V5.2 Standard Edition is available now for $11.95 U.S., V5.2 Professional Edition is available now for $35.95 U.S. and V5.2 Developer Edition is available for $99.95 U.S. All versions are available, free of charge, to previous purchasers.

Registration key formats were last changed in the following releases of Total Recorder:

• Standard Edition - version 5.0
• Professional Edition - V4.0
• Developer Edition - V4.1

New registration keys may be obtained by using the self-service registration key management system. This system uses the email address under which the product was originally purchased. If this email address is no longer valid, then users requiring a new key must email High Criteria at support@highcriteria.com. Users should specify their registration name and E-mail address from the time of registering and their new E-mail address.

For a limited time, registered users of Total Recorder Standard Edition may upgrade to the Professional Edition for an upgrade fee of $24.00 U.S. Please follow this link for further details.

For a limited time, registered users of Total Recorder Professional Edition may upgrade to the Developer Edition for an upgrade fee of $64.00 U.S.