<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The solid state sound transcription pedal seems relatively expensive to me. A few months ago I reported to the Music Transcribers list (see my other post) on using the vpedal (made by VPE, in Australia) successfully with ELAN and quicktime (doesn't seem to work with Transcriber).<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><A href="http://www.trixsoftware.com/apps/vpedal/VPedal.html">http://www.trixsoftware.com/apps/vpedal/VPedal.html</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/upgrade/pedal-power/2006/04/17/1145126035069.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/upgrade/pedal-power/2006/04/17/1145126035069.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I bought one in Sydney for $112 including delivery (the price may be different now since the supplier mp3direct.com.au has now gone offline.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> You can programme other joystick type USB foot pedal devices to do the same job.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Linda</DIV></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dr Linda Barwick</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Senior Research Fellow</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sydney Conservatorium of Music</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Office: room 235 Transient Building F12</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">University of Sydney NSW 2006</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">tel +61 2 9351 2002</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">fax +61 2 9351 7572</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:lbarwick@usyd.edu.au">lbarwick@usyd.edu.au</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Director, PARADISEC</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sydney Unit, room 238</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Transient Building F12</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">University of Sydney NSW 2006</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">tel +61 2 9036 9557</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">fax +61 2 9351 7572</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://www.paradisec.org.au">http://www.paradisec.org.au</A></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>