You can record your own voice from microphone and insert it to your show photo page as a sound. A recorded sound can be saved into the pre-recorded sound list for future use.
Start recording new voice
Click on Record Voice tool button at the top right corner. A list of available pre-recorded voice will be listed underneath. If you never record any voice before you will not see anything in the list. Click on Record new Voice button underneath the Record Voice tool button. A window as shown below will show up.
Make sure your microphone is turned on. Speak through the microphone to test if it is working. When you say something through the microphone, you should hear your voice back from the speaker. If not:
| • | Check your Windows Volume Control from Start - All Programs - Accessories - Entertainment - Volume Control. |
| • | Click on options - properties menu. |
| • | Check Microphone check box and click OK. |
| • | Now you should see a microphone slider. Set it to halfway and make sure the check box Mute underneath it is unchecked. |
| • | Now test your microphone again. |
Click on Start Recording to begin recording from microphone and start speaking immediately. A timer will start counting showing you the current recording length.
The longer the sound, the bigger the resulting show file size. If you can, try to minimize the recording length. As a rule of thumb, 5 second sound adds 1 second downloading time when your show is viewed online by others.
To stop recording, click Stop recording button.
Click Play button to test your recording.
If you like the recording and want to use it, click on Save this recording button. But before hand, if you want to insert this recording as one of the pre-recorded voice collection, check Insert voice into collection check box and type in name for this voice. To redo the recording simply click Start recording button again. To cancel recording voice, click Cancel button. If you choose to insert voice into collection, the voice you just recorded will be seen on the list at tool window. Later you can drag anyone of them into preview window to insert it.
On a photo page, a recorded voice will be represented by a flashing lips icon. A recorded voice behaves the same way as Sound. It also has two different behavior:
| • | Play when button is clicked. An icon representing the recorded voice will show up when your show is playing and you can click on it to play the recorded voice. |
| • | Play when photo show up after a certain period. There will be no recorded voice icon when show is played. |
You can select a voice either by clicking on it on the preview window or selecting it from the list box provided on the left.
Making recorded voice to loop
A recorded voice can be played in loop continuously by checking the Loop sound check box
Playing a recorded voice for testing
Click to select the recorded voice on the preview window. Click on Play button
Re-record a recorded voice
Click to select the recorded voice on the preview window. Click on Record button.
Positioning recorded voice icon
Drag the recorded voice icon directly on the preview window to position it. This is only useful for Play On Click recorded voice behavior. 'Play automatically recorded voice behavior' does not show recorded voice icon when show is played so there is no use of positioning the voice icon.
Deleting a recorded voice
Select the recorded voice by clicking on it on the preview window. Click on Delete button on the far right of Play button.
Changing recorded voice behavior
Click to select the recorded voice on the preview window. Click on More settings button to open up a menu to change recorded voice behavior.
To set sound quality
Sound quality setting is used to adjust the quality of your recorded voice. The lower (left) the quality the smaller the file size and vice versa. Lowest quality sound is a quarter the size of Highest quality.
Adding sound effect to recorded sound
You can add sound effect to your recorded sound. There are 8 different sound effect available to choose from:
| • | Woman voice |
To change the voice pitch to woman voice
| • | Girl voice |
To change the voice pitch to girl voice
| • | Man voice |
To change the voice pitch to man voice
| • | Boy voice |
To change the voice pitch to boy voice
| • | Ghost voice |
To change the voice pitch to ghost voice
| • | Cartoon character voice |
To change the voice pitch to cartoon character voice
| • | Add echo |
To add echo to the recorded voice
| • | Play backward |
To play the voice backward
This feature is available by clicking on Apply Sound effect button underneath the preview window when the voice is currently selected.
Note that this effects are accumulative, meaning you can apply several effects one after another to get combined effect. To restore to original voice, choose Restore to original voice.