Audio Notes Tips

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From: Chris_Pratley (MS) - view profile
Date: Fri, Apr 23 2004 2:45 am
Email: "Chris_Pratley \(MS\)" <[email protected]>
Groups: microsoft.public.onenote
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ARK, I'm sorry the feature isn't more clear. The audio notes feature in

OneNote is much more sophisticated than simply recording a short voice
memo,
although it can be used for that too. After you hit the record button,
try
typing a few notes. Hit enter after each note. Finally, stop the
recording.

Now, you can play back any part of the audio by following these steps:
1. hover over any note you took - an icon of a speaker will appear to
the
left of the note
2. click that icon.


Result: the audio plays back from the point where you typed that note.
This
is called "linked audio" - each typed entry is time stamped so that it
indexes into the audio you have recorded. This is very useful for
longer
resordings.


If you take two unrelated short voice notes on a page by starting and
stopping a few times as you are doing, use the same technique - hover
over
the second note, and click the icon to play back the audio for that
note.


You'll notice that OneNote backs up a few seconds from the point where
you
first started capturing the audio, to reflect that people sometimes
take a
few seconds to react to something they hear before typing a note (if
they
are taking typed or written notes in response to audio they are hearing
and
recording). You can adjust that interval in Tools/Options/Audio and
Video.


Chris Pratley (MS)
OneNote design team

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Interesting Way this is done.

 

[Grant Robertson]

After you hit the record button, try
typing a few notes. Hit enter after each note.

If ON 2007 is the same as 2003 in this regard then wouldn't it be best to
not press return till you are just getting ready to type the next
paragraph. Previous posts on this topic for 2003 recommend to not press
enter till just before you start typing the next paragraph because the
program inserts the link at the point in the recording where you create
the paragraph. If you press enter as soon as you finish the previous
paragraph (thus creating a new paragraph that you just haven't put any
text in) then the audio link for that paragraph points back to the time
you ended the previous paragraph. This then throws people off because
when they click an audio link for paragraph B they get taken back to the
time in the audio file when they typed paragraph A.

I haven't tested ON 2007 on this but I am just double checking to make
sure people don't get confused later.