Play Item helps you learn how to transcribe or download the audio you just recording or edited. Play Item helps you learn how to transcribe or download the audio you just recording or edited.
The person speaking needs a microphone.
A headset or speakers so you can listen to the recording.
Review Play Item.
If you will use experimental features, you need an Internet connection. If you use Desktop, you must be online.
Be aware that segment boundaries will appear if added in a Mark Verses step.
You will see the vernacular audio file waveform and its related controls.
Version and status (none or finished) appears below the audio wave form.
Click the Speaker field, type the name of the person who will be speaking. Provide rights if necessary.
Click 
(Play) or press the keyboard shortcut (F1 or Ctrl + Space) to listen to the vernacular audio file.
Click 
(Record) or press the keyboard shortcut (F9 or Ctrl + 9) and speak the back translation into your microphone.
Notice that the playback of the vernacular recording stops, if it was still playing.
Click (Play) or press the keyboard shortcut (F1 or Ctrl + Space) to listen to your recording for quality and usability.
Optionally, do any of the following:
Select a portion of the audio waveform that you do not want to keep, and then click 
(Delete Region).
Click 
(Undo) to undo the deletion.
Click 
(Delete Entire Recording) to delete it if you want to start over.
If Reduce NoiseAI is selected in the Team Settings dialog box, or the Personal Settings dialog box, click 
(Reduce NoiseAI) to use this experimental feature. If you do not need to reduce the noise for the entire audio file, select the portion that is too noisy before you click Reduce NoiseAI.
If Convert VoiceAI is selected in the Team Settings dialog box, or the Personal Settings dialog box, click 
(Convert Voice <speaker>AI) to use this experimental feature. See 
Note below.
Click Save.
You will see the vernacular audio file waveform, 
(Auto Segment) and its related controls.
Version and Segments complete information appears below the waveform. As you record phrase back translations, the segment time stamp appears along with the number of completed segments.
A separate Segment field informs you which segment is in focus.
Be aware that segment boundaries will appear if added in a Mark Verses step.
Click the Speaker field, type the name of the person who will be speaking. Provide rights if necessary.
Any speaker name you add will appear in the Select Item dialog box.
If you did not add segment boundaries in a Mark Verses step, add segment boundaries in either of these ways:
Click (Auto Segment) to use the segmenter.
When the segments (boundaries) are as you want to them to be, click Save Segments to save the segments.
Click the first segment.
Notice that the start-time/end-time appears in the Segment field.
Click (Play) or press the keyboard shortcut (F1 or Ctrl + Space) to listen to that segment of the vernacular audio file.
Click 
(Loop On) to hear the segment as many times as necessary (optional).
Click (Record) or press the keyboard shortcut (F9 or Ctrl + 9) and speak the back translation into your microphone.
Notice that the playback of the vernacular recording stops.
Click (Play) or press the keyboard shortcut (F1 or Ctrl + Space) to listen to your recording for quality and usability.
Optionally, do any of the following:
Select a portion of the audio waveform that you do not want to keep, and then click (Delete Region).
Click (Undo) to undo the deletion.
If Reduce NoiseAI is selected in the Team Settings dialog box, or the Personal Settings dialog box, click (Reduce NoiseAI) to use this experimental feature. If you do not need to reduce the noise for the entire audio file, select the portion that is too noisy before you click Reduce NoiseAI.
If Convert VoiceAI is selected in the Team Settings dialog box, or the Personal Settings dialog box, click (Convert Voice <speaker>AI) to use this experimental feature. See Note below.
Click (Delete Entire Recording) to delete it if you want to start over.
Click Save Segments.
Click 
(Next Segment) to start the playback the next segment and do any of the steps above again.
Phrase back translation segments are saved separately from other segments.
This is important if your workflow has a Phrase BT Transcribe step.
(Convert Voice <speaker>AI) is available before you save a new audio recording.
In this case, the recorded Provide Rights voice sample must be already available. You can choose a name, but not record a new sample at this time.