gHacks technology news » voice http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Record any sound on your computer http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/25/record-any-sound-on-your-computer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/25/record-any-sound-on-your-computer/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:15:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/25/record-any-sound-on-your-computer/ I always thought that it should be theoretically possible to record any sound that you are hearing on your computer. Sometimes solutions for selected programs exist but I was looking for a free program that could record any sound no matter the source it was coming from. This can be for example quite useful if you want to record conversations in Skype or Teamspeak or record a sound that you heard on a website on the internet. Yes, even streaming radio poses no problem but you should note that the following free tool is not capable of recognizing the beginning and end of songs. It just records for as long as you want.

The freeware that I’m speaking of is called MP3 My MP3 Recorder. After installing the application you specify the source from where you want to record the audio from. You may select from the following sources: Phone Line, Microphone, Line In, CD Player, AUX, SPDIF, Stereo Mix and Mono Mix. Stereo Mix for instance should be a great selection for most purposes. Once that is done you should fine tune the recording level for best results.

To do so take a look at the bar on the right side of the program window which should not peak into the red area at all times.  Once that is done click on settings to specify the bit rate for the sound that will be recorded (between 32 and 320). You may also set a time limit for the recording but the default is to record until you stop the recording.

If everything is set the way you want it to be you click on the (red) recording button to start the process. The buttons to stop and play the already recorded songs will become active once that process has started.

I think this is a great tool if you want to record audio fast and easy. The quality is pretty nice as well.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/25/record-any-sound-on-your-computer/feed/ 13 Lie Detector for Skype http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/lie-detector-for-skype/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/lie-detector-for-skype/#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:32:34 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/lie-detector-for-skype/ If you ever wanted to know if a person you are talking to in Skype is telling the truth you might want to give the KishKish Lie Detector plugin für Skype a try. Just download the plugin from the developers website and run the file once the download has been completed. It will automatically assign itself to Skype and you will have to tell Skype to give this plugin access.

Once that is done a new window appears that is giving you information about the Stress Level of the person you are talking to. It needs some time to calibrate but once that is done it displays the Stress level in a graph. I’m not sure how reliable this method is, I tested it with a friend and it seemed to display rather strange results. You should also note that the person you are talking to will receive information in the chat window about the plugin that you are using.

It seems to be free to use for now, not sure though how long this will remain. It looks more like a nice gimmick at the moment than a serious application. Let me know if you have better results using it.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/16/lie-detector-for-skype/feed/ 9 Skype 3.0 final has been released http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/skype-30-final-has-been-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/skype-30-final-has-been-released/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:05:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/13/skype-30-final-has-been-released/ A new version of the communications suite Skype has been released today. Just head over to the Skype homepage and download the version for your operating system. Skype 3.0 introduces some new features and bugfixes, please take a look at the release notes if you are curious about them. The interface has seen some slight changes and some new features like public chat have been introduced.

I would not say that Skype made a big step forward, can’t see many other changes yet. Sure there are some new emoticons and stuff like that but this is not that important I think. In case you do not know Skype I decided to list the main features of it.

  • Support of Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Talk or chat with your buddies using Skype and a microphone (for voice chat)
  • Video chat
  • Cheap calls to (mobile) phones worldwide
  • Send files using Skype
  • Conference Calls

I’m using Skype mainly to see when my buddies come online. I know that instant messengers do the same but I never got used to one of those.

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