Arabic-L:PEDA:more on voice recording

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Alec McAllister <t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk>
Subject:more on voice recording

Several members of this list have recommended Audacity, which I have  
used successfully for some years and highly recommend.

Recently, I discovered that there is a known problem with using  
Audacity on *SOME* hardware running Vista. Apparently, Vista talks to  
hardware in a slightly different way from previous versions of  
Windows, and *SOME* audio hardware requires updated drivers to handle  
this, even though it runs perfectly well on other hardware running  
identical versions of Vista. For example, Audacity absolutely will not  
run with Vista on my hardware, but runs perfectly well on my  
colleague's PC, because his has a different sound-card and driver.

The Audacity HelpDesk people are well aware of this problem, but  
cannot do much to solve it: it is not their fault, and the solution  
depends on hardware makers providing suitable drivers.

Audacity works perfectly well for me on the Beta version of Windows 7,  
even on five-year-old hardware, so perhaps the solution is to use  
Audacity with XP or Windows 7, and skip Vista.

Alec McAllister
Multilingual Computing Co-ordinator
Information Systems Services
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

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