Undo to Perfection

When you make recordings in SoniClear SalesVoice, you can record your spoken word presentation in sections. After you complete each section you can review how it sounds and re-record it if you are not satisfied. Most people are not trained to deliver long monologues without making mistakes. With SoniClear, you do not have to be a voice actor to produce a flawless recording.

VoiceBoost for Studio Quality

The digital signal processing in SoniClear gives your voice a professional recording studio sound. VoiceBoost performs all of the functions of a $3,000 recording studio voice processor, automatically, and without requiring any special audio engineering experience.

Experience the Difference

Try out SoniClear SalesVoice for yourself and experience creating professional spoken word recordings on your Windows computer. Download the SalesVoice Free Trial today and follow these simple How To Instructions.

How To Instructions

Download and install SoniClear SalesVoice, and start the program.

The default source of audio is from your sound card microphone. If your computer has a built-in microphone (typical for laptops) the program will record automatically from it. Otherwise, plug a computer microphone into the mic-in jack of the sound card.

Now create a new file for recording. Click the New button, enter a file name, select Presentation as the recording type, and click OK.

This will display "Ready to Record" in the status window, along with the length of time that you can record (based on the amount of free space on your disk drive). The program is now ready to record your voice.

Click the red Record button and start speaking. The first time using the program you will probably need to adjust the record volume. If you are using the standard microphone or line-in sources in your sound card, you simply adjust the "level" slider. The best level is when the record meter registers generally in the middle of the range. Too low or too high of a meter reading will result in poor audio quality.

When finished speaking, click the Stop button. You can review the audio by clicking the Play button. If you do not hear anything be sure the audio to the computer speaker is on. This can be adjusted by clicking on the speaker icon in the lower right corner of the computer screen.

If you are satisfied with the sound, the recording is done. If not, you can click the Undo button and record again. Keep repeating the record and undo steps until you are satisfied with the result.

When you have recorded all of the sections of the presentation in order, the recording is complete, stored in the file of the name you specified. This finished WAV file can then be used in a variety of ways, such as Internet delivery, burn to Audio CD, or import into other programs (such as PowerPoint).

For Internet delivery, export the WAV recording to MP3 format. From the SoniClear File pulldown menu select Export to MP3. Accept the default file name (or enter a different name), and click Encode. The software will automatically generate the MP3 file. Now upload this MP3 file to your website and link the file from a web page. Instructions will vary for this step, so consult with the documentation provided with the hosting system you use.

For distribution on CD, you will probably want to create an Audio format CD. This requires converting the WAV recording made using the above steps into CD format. If you closed the file before this step, reopen it now. Select File/Convert from the pulldown menu. This will display a file conversion dialog box. Select 44K, 16 bit, Stereo, WAV, from the conversion options and click OK. Enter a file name and click Save. From the processing dialog box, leave the VoiceBoost unchecked (since Presentation mode already performs VoiceBoost) and click Begin. This will produce a file that can be burned to CD using the CD writing software included with your computer. Consult the instructions provided with that software for creating a "music" CD (sometimes called Audio CD or "Red Book"). The resulting CD can be played in any car or home stereo CD player.

A useful SoniClear technique for creating longer voice recordings is to record in sections. Each time you record and then stop, you have the option to listen to the section just recorded and erase only that portion. Divide your presentation into natural groups of information. Record a section by clicking the Record button, speak into the microphone for that section of the presentation, and then click Stop. Listen to that section by clicking the Play button. If the recording is satisfactory, continue to record the next section by clicking the Record button. The program will automatically start recording at the end of the file. If the recording is not correct, click the Undo button. This will remove only the last recorded section from the file. You can then re-record that section.