Exploring Your Computer’s Features

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Exploring audio features

Using a microphone

1 Connect an external microphone to the computer.

2Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, and then Sound Recorder.

Positioning bar

Record

Stop

Play

Skip forward

Skip backward

Sample Sound Recorder screen3 Click the Record button.4Speak normally into the microphone.5 When you have finished recording, click the Stop button.The Sound Recorder window displays the new sound file as a waveform.

NOTE

 

You can only record 60 seconds at a time.

 

 

 

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To hear what you just recorded, click the Play button.

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To save the file, select Save from the File menu.

 

 

 

NOTE

 

The microphone setting on your computer might be set to

 

 

Mute. To check this, click Start, All Programs, Accessories,

 

 

Entertainment, and then Volume Control.