MicNotePad is an easy to use, enhanced, digital tape recorder. Its
significant features are: It also is a transcriber. It works. It is easy to use. It works in the background. It uses only half a megabyte of RAM. 70 pages on-screen user guide are built in.
MicNotePad is being used for dictation, transcription, and archiving. MicNotePad is being used to record test flights, interviews, lectures, meetings, performances, and kids.
To fully explore MicNotePad, switch to both Large View and Full Menus. In spite of its ease of use and reliability, MicNotePad's long list of features include superior sound quality, yet one hour fits into only 14MB, adjustable sound formats, optional automatic playback, rewinding, and locking, unique markers,sound check, adjustable sound input gain level, adjustable key combinations, adjustable playback speed while keeping original pitch, notification, selection of sound input device, AppleScript scriptability, drag and drop onto email messages, playback of many aif, au, wav, and system sound files, some optimization to allow transfer from and to audio tapes, compatibility with global search engines, totally transparent compatibility across the hardware platform from the PowerBook 140 to the Power Macintosh 9500. It even allows to use regular external microphones with the PowerBook 5300 series without using any hardware adapters.
Balloon Help often clarifies when minor features are not available on specific Macintosh models and describes some more power features.
MicNotePad is a speech product that is well integrated into the word processing paradigm. Other than most other speech products, it works for any language, accent, number of speakers, background noise, or topic. Beyond uses in journalism, legal and medical transcription, and higher education, it also serves well in language study, speech therapy, with attention deficit disorder, and for creative writing.
Limitations: This free MicNotePad Lite 3.7.5 does not function in Japan. Also, for any Mac model that will be introduced after summer of 1996 you might have to come back for a newer version. If that occurs, then it is obvious immediately, and you can send an e-mail to the authors to accelerate development of a new version (your vote for the budget). The authors hope to remove such limitations upon clearance of certain contractual issues sometime soon.
