Transcribe! Help : Toolbar

The toolbar is displayed below the menu bar. The toolbar provides quick mouse access to some commands used in Transcribe!.

To hide or display the Toolbar, choose Toolbar from the View menu.

Open an existing file (transcription or Sound file). Transcribe! displays the Open dialog box, in which you can locate and open the desired file.
Keyboard shortcut : Command+O

Save the active transcription file using the same file name. If you have not yet named the transcription document, Transcribe! displays the Save As dialog box.
Keyboard shortcut : Command+S

Load or Reload a new Sound file into the current transcription file.

Print the current view on a single page.
Keyboard shortcut : Command+P

Start playback in the current playback mode (the mode which is checked on the Play menu).
Keyboard shortcut : <spacebar>

Pause playback, or resume if already paused.
Keyboard shortcut : <comma>

Stop playing.
Keyboard shortcut : <period>

Select whether to play once and stop, or play repeatedly (loop).
Keyboard shortcut : Command+L

Select whether to automatically scroll the waveform display while playing (scroll).
Keyboard shortcut : Command+R

Review : skip rapidly backwards while playing.
Keyboard shortcut : r

Cue : skip rapidly forwards while playing.
Keyboard shortcut : c

Record to File : record sound from your soundcard's input to a Sound file on disk.

Half speed playback. This is equivalent to using the Faster/Slower command and selecting slowdown speed of 50%. Press it again to return to normal speed.
Keyboard shortcut : Alt+2

Quarter speed playback. This is equivalent to using the Faster/Slower command and selecting slowdown speed of 25%. Press it again to return to normal speed.
Keyboard shortcut : Alt+4

This brings up the Faster/Slower dialog.

Synchronize speed. When you apply pitch changes to the sound (with either the Faster/Slower dialog or the Tuning dialog) then the speed also changes. Press this button to apply a speed adjustment so as to restore playback to the same speed as the original sound file. The two dialogs just mentioned have a "Synchronize speed" button which has the same effect. Note that if you have half (or quarter) speed selected then you can release it by pressing the half (or quarter) speed button again, in which case speed adjustment is switched off, which means that if tuning adjustment has been applied then the speed will be faster or slower than the original depending on whether tuning is sharp or flat. Pressing the Synchronize button has a different effect, where there is a tuning adjustment. This may all seem a bit complicated but I want to make sure it is possible to use Transcribe! without activating speed adjustment unless you want to, because speed adjustment uses heavy computation and may not be practical on slow machines.
Keyboard shortcut : Alt+1

There are two more items at the right of the toolbar.

The first is the "load gauge" which shows how hard your computer is having to work to keep up with playback. The more this gauge fills up to the right, the harder your machine is working. This is normally only an issue when you are using slowed-down playback or MP3 decoding.

The second shows the current playing point measured from the start in minutes and seconds. Like all timing information displayed by Transcribe!, it relates to the original file at its original speed, ignoring any pitch/speed changes you have specified.

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