Dictation Buddy V2.2

Dictation Buddy is a Windows program that records your voice and saves it as a compressed sound file that you can play, edit, send, or publish. Dictation Buddy V2.2 has advanced features such as sound activation, automatic file save facilities and hot-key support for controlling playback while another application, such as Word, is active. Dictation Buddy features also include the ability to imbed text notes and bookmarks into a standard audio file.

Dictation Buddy Features

The main features of Dictation Buddy include:

  • Recording and playback of compressed sound files using fast and efficient Windows codecs.
  • Sound activation for recording.
  • Imbedded text notes.
  • Imbedded bookmarks and associated text notes.
  • Automatic recording time-stamps.
  • Playback functions may be controlled through the use of a USB or game port connected foot pedal.
  • Recording from any line or sound card on your computer.
  • Accelerated playback for easy searching.
  • Automatic file save when recording terminates (because there is no longer sound to record)
  • Hot-key support for transcribing a recording to a PC application such as Word.
  • Ability to edit your recording.
  • OLE support that allows you to imbed your recording in other files such as Microsoft Word documents.
  • Direct sending of your recording via E-mail.
  • Easy to use audio wizard to help you select the best recording parameters.

Overviews of Potential Uses

Dictation Buddy is an ideal choice for a number of PC based recording applications. To record simple dictation, plug a microphone into the mic input jack of your sound card and use the standard Dictation Buddy user interface controls to control the recording / playback settings. The following overviews provide more detailed information about using Dictation Buddy to:

Users can also add text notes and bookmarks into standard audio files.

Dictation Buddy’s main screen:

Requirements

To use Dictation Buddy, you need the following:

  • an IBM compatible computer,
  • a sound card,
  • a device such as a microphone, to allow for sound input,
  • Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000 or XP.

Testing Your Hardware Set-up for Dictation Buddy

This link provides information about testing your PC's hardware set-up, to insure that it will work correctly with Dictation Buddy.

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