SoundTap has a built in utility to browse, search and play your recordings. To view recordings you have made, click on the button labelled Find and Play located on the mainscreen toolbar. SoundTap will display a window which you can use to browse your file system for recorded files. It will also allow you to play, edit, rename and burn your recordings.

The main window of the find and play dialog will shows a list of any files of the specified type in the currently selected directory. To change the viewing directory click the browse buttons next to the file path text fields.

Playing a Recording

To play a recording simply select it and press the play button. Alternatively you can double click or press F9. This will create a simple audio player with the selected file loaded in and displayed as a waveform. You can now rewind, fast forward, pause or play your recording.

Edit Audio

If you would like to do more with a selected file than simply play it, you can edit it in NCH Software's powerful audio editor WavePad. You can open your selected recording in WavePad by clicking the Edit button in the Find and Play toolbar. Wavepad is a full featured professional sound editor for Windows. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a huge array of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aiff, flac, ogg and more. Wavepad comes in two versions, a free version and a master's version. Using WavePad is a great way to edit out commercials, gaps, or other undesired parts of your SoundTap recordings.

Save As

This will save the selected recording to a different position in a local or networked folder.

Send to Email Now

The selected file will be attached to a default email and sent to the address you specify.

Burn to CD-ROM

The selected files will be imported into Express Burn. Express Burn is also the fastest CD/DVD writing program in the world using a proprietary optimizing system developed by NCH Software. It will also create an index file which it will begin burning immediately to a data CD.

Compress and Backup

If your file sizes are getting too large or you wish to make a backup of your audio, the compress and backup button will provide you the choice of burning straight to a CD after compression or to a Backup Folder. It can compress in 3 different formats. The choice of compression depends on the particular audio settings that determined the quality of the sound file that was recorded. Please test that the compression type you choose delivers appropriate results in regard to size and quality of audio for a sample file. Compressing and backing up does not effect your original audio recording.

Convert Sound File

This converts the selected audio file(s) to a different format using Switch. The Switch audio file converter is very easy to use. With the selected files added into Switch, select your target format and then click the convert button. Switch supports conversions to wav (PCM, ADPCM+, aLaw+, uLaw+, and others), mp3, wma, au, aif/aiff, gsm, vox, raw, ogg, flac, .rss, .amr+ and more.

Transcribe

Allow simple and easy dictation of files using Express Scribe. This computer transcriber application features variable speed wave playback, foot pedal operation, file management and more. This program is free.

Deleting a Recording

To delete recordings, select them and click on the Delete button. You can select more than one recording by holding down the Shift key while selecting.

To save recordings as a wav, mp3 or gsm file on your hard drive, select the recording and click "Save As". Enter the file name and click OK.

Folder Tab

By default, Find and Play lists only recordings in the local record folder.

You can change the default folder for holding your audio files or you can change the alternative folder to suit your needs.

View Filter Tab

The View Filter Tab allows searching and filtering on what is displayed in the list view.

You can search or filter what is shown by the text in each column, by the duration of the audio or by the date of the recording.

Speech Search Tab

On the 'Speech Search' tab you can choose to search for keywords in the recordings. You must select an installed Speech Recognition engine (eg. Dragon Naturally Speaking, IBM Via Voice). Microsoft supplies a free 'Speech Command and Control' engine (filename actcnc.exe) and this can be located using an internet search engine. Please note any speech engine used must support Context Free Grammars. You can also optionally select a trained speaker for the engine.

Play Options Tab

Set the sound device you use to play your audio file, also set the Variable Slow and Fast Speeds that you can use the vary the speed of playback. If multiple times are found on your speech search clicking on the file will provide a list of the "key found at" times. Speech searching places a bookmark to hold the place in the audio when multiple times are found so you can jump to the keyword.

Clicking update Now will refresh the List View after any changes.