A Tour of the PureVoice Window:

Shown below is the window you will see when you open PureVoice:

The PureVoice window consists of these elements, roughly from top to bottom:

• Title bar, with title and four buttons: Window menu (left), and Minimize, Maximize, and Close (right).

• Menu bar, with four menus: File, Control, Options, Help.

• Toolbar, with buttons: NEW, OPEN, INS, NAME, VOL, TOP.

• Name box (when visible): Lets you edit the file name to be used for the saved assignment.

• Digital display (green LED readout): Shows your current position in the recording, the total duration of the recording, the volume level during record and playback, icons indicating operation mode (record/play, pause, and compressing), the compression rate, the estimated size of the compressed file (in kilobytes), and the current playback speed.

• Attach button: Attaches the saved, compressed recording to an e-mail message.

• Position slider: Shows the current position in the recording during playback. Can also be moved to your desired position for assignment editing and playback.

• Record/playback control buttons: Play, Record, Stop, Pause, Skip Backward, Skip Forward, Speed Up, Slow Down.

• Volume controls (when visible): Sliders let you increase or decrease the speaker volume during playback and the microphone volume/sensitivity during recording.

• Status bar: Displays informational and status messages and brief help text for PureVoice window items.
  

To use PureVoice, simply click on the red recording dot and speak into your microphone.

To name your file, click on Name. Name your file with your user name and the assignment name.

To save a file, go to the File menu, and Save as the name you gave it above. This will save the file as a Pure Voice file which can only be played using the Pure Voice program. This will be fine for submitting your course assignments as your instructor will also have this software.

To save the recording as a .wav file that can be opened with any media player (Real Player, Windows Media Player, etc) follow the following procedure:
1. Open your saved Pure Voice file.
2. Pull down the "File" menu and select "Convert" as shown below:

Your file will now save in a WAV format.