[Njtechdiv] How to use voice memos on your Iphone

[Janie Degenshein]

Thanks to Alice Eaddy for sending me this link, which I have copied for you
here:
http://m.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-voice-memos-on-your-iphone.html
I copied the info for you as well
Enjoy and stay safe all!
How to Use Voice Memos on Your iPhone
By Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus from iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition
Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder in the iPhone. Why would
you need a recorder? Consider all the times you’d find it useful to have a
voice recorder in your pocket — perhaps when you’re attending a lecture or
conducting an interview. Or maybe you just want to leave yourself a quickie
reminder about something (“Pick up milk after work”).

Make a recording
After you have that recorder in your pocket, how do you capture audio? When
you tap the Voice Memos icon on the Home screen or in the Utilities folder,
where it typically hangs out, up pops the microphone.

It’s mainly for show. The two real microphones on the iPhone 4 and 4S are on
the top and bottom of the device and the three microphones on the iPhone 5
are on the front, back, and bottom left.

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Tap the red record button in the lower-left part of the screen to start
recording. You see the needle in the audio level meter move as Voice Memo
detects sounds, even when you pause a recording by tapping the red button a
second time. A clock at the top of the screen indicates how long your
recording session is lasting. It’s that easy.

The audio meter can help you determine an ideal recording level. Apple
recommends that the loudest level on the meter be between –3dB and 0dB.
Speak in a normal voice. To adjust the recording level, simply move the
microphone closer or farther from your mouth.
Listen to recordings
After you capture your thoughts or musings, how do you play them back?

You can start playback in a couple of ways, and both involve tapping the
same button:

Immediately after recording the memo, tap the button to the right of the
audio level meter. A list of all your recordings pops up in chronological
order, with the most recent memo on top. That memo is the one you just
recorded, of course, and it automatically starts to play.

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If you haven’t just recorded something, tapping the button to the right
summons the same list of all your recordings. However, nothing plays until
you tap a recording in the list and then tap the little play button that
appears to the left of the date and time that the recording was made (or to
the left of the label you assigned to the recording).

You can drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move ahead to any point
in the memo.
If you don’t hear anything after tapping play, tap the Speaker button in the
upper-left corner of the screen. Sound will pump through the built-in iPhone
speaker.

How to trim recordings
Maybe the person who left the recording rambled on and on. You just want to
cut to the chase, for goodness’ sake. Fortunately, you can trim the audio
directly on the iPhone.

Tap the right-pointing arrow next to the memo you want to trim, and then tap
Trim Memo. A narrow, blue tube representing the recording appears inside a
yellow bar. Drag the edges of this audio region to adjust the start and end
points of the memo. You can preview your edit before tapping the Trim Voice
Memo button by tapping the little play button.

image2.jpg Your edits are permanent. Make sure that you’re completely
satisfied with your cuts before tapping Trim Voice Memo — or that you’ve
synced the original back to iTunes on your computer so that you’re working
with a copy.
Add a label to a recording
When a memo is added to your list of recordings, it just shows up with the
date and time of the recording. You see no other identifier. As memos
accumulate, you may have a tough time remembering which recording was made
for which purpose. You can label a recording with one of the labels Apple
has supplied or, better, create a custom label.

Here’s how:

>From the list of recordings, tap the right-pointing arrow for the memo to
which you want to add a label.

The Voice Memo information screen appears.

Tap the right-pointing arrow in the box showing the date and time and the
length of the video you just recorded.

Select a label from the list that appears.

Your choices are None, Podcast, Interview, Lecture, Idea, Meeting, Memo, and
Custom.

Choose Custom to type your own label (Professor Snookins on Biology, for
example).

That’s it. Your recording is duly identified.

You may want to share with others the good professor’s wacky theories. Tap
Share from either the main Voice Memos list or the information screen. You
then have the option to e-mail the memo or send it as part of a message (an
MMS message, text message, or an iMessage).

You can also sync Voice Memos to your Mac or PC by using iTunes.
When you have no further use for a recording, you can remove it from the
Voice Memos app by tapping it in the list and then tapping the Delete
button.

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