I apologize if this is the wrong group for this question. If there's a
better group to ask, please point me in that direction.

I have an audio cassette I need to record onto my hard drive, so that I can
decrease the speed, then put it onto a CD-ROM.

A little background information so you know why I need to do this...

My unemployment appeals hearing took place over the phone, and was recorded
by the appeals court for records. They sent the tape to me and when I play
it back, it's way too fast. Because some of these hearing can last a long
time, and to conserve audio tapes, they record them at half-speed. My
attorney needs to hear this tape and be able to understand it, but at the
current speed, it just sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks on meth...

I've attempted to play the tape on a tape player and record into "Windows
Sound Recorder", and this works great, except that it won't allow me to tape
anything of any length. I get 60 seconds into it, and it stops recording.
I need to tape approximately 45 to 60 minutes and can't figure out how to
accomplish this.

Can you tell me how I can accomplish this without having to buy equipment
that I'll probably never need again? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance for any ideas, advice or direction to where I can go for
help.

Thanks,
Brigitte

Hi,

In message , Brigitte J.
writes

I've attempted to play the tape on a tape player and record into "Windows
Sound Recorder", and this works great, except that it won't allow me to tape
anything of any length. I get 60 seconds into it, and it stops recording.
I need to tape approximately 45 to 60 minutes and can't figure out how to
accomplish this.

I guess this is a one-off project? If so, there are a bunch of shareware
and freeware applications that will work. You may have to download a few
and choose the one that suits you, but here are some to try:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://www.goldwave.com/
http://www.allformp3.com/sound_editor/smr.htm

It is possible to convince Sound Recorder to record longer files, but
it's a hassle, and you would probably be better off with a different
application.

Good luck,
--
Glenn Booth

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:43:20 GMT, "Brigitte J."
wrote:

I apologize if this is the wrong group for this question. If there's a
better group to ask, please point me in that direction.

I have an audio cassette I need to record onto my hard drive, so that I can
decrease the speed, then put it onto a CD-ROM.

A little background information so you know why I need to do this...

My unemployment appeals hearing took place over the phone, and was recorded
by the appeals court for records. They sent the tape to me and when I play
it back, it's way too fast. Because some of these hearing can last a long
time, and to conserve audio tapes, they record them at half-speed. My
attorney needs to hear this tape and be able to understand it, but at the
current speed, it just sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks on meth...

I've attempted to play the tape on a tape player and record into "Windows
Sound Recorder", and this works great, except that it won't allow me to tape
anything of any length. I get 60 seconds into it, and it stops recording.
I need to tape approximately 45 to 60 minutes and can't figure out how to
accomplish this.

Can you tell me how I can accomplish this without having to buy equipment
that I'll probably never need again? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance for any ideas, advice or direction to where I can go for
help.

Thanks,
Brigitte


Get yourself Cooledit96 (just Google that and you will find download
sites). That is a full-function audio editor that will do everything
you need -plus a whole load more.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Don,

Trouble is, Cool Edit is no longer supported, so can't be registered, so you
can only get a permanently crippled version. Syntrillium sold out to Adobe,
who turned it into the more expensive 'Audition'.

Dave W.

p.s.: A pity, Cool Edit is very good, especially with third party
'ClickFix'.

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
Get yourself Cooledit96 (just Google that and you will find download
sites). That is a full-function audio editor that will do everything
you need -plus a whole load more.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:00:54 +0100, "Dave W."
wrote:

Don,

Trouble is, Cool Edit is no longer supported, so can't be registered, so you
can only get a permanently crippled version. Syntrillium sold out to Adobe,
who turned it into the more expensive 'Audition'.

Dave W.

p.s.: A pity, Cool Edit is very good, especially with third party
'ClickFix'.

True, but '96 is still a pretty darned good freebee.

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

You can do it using soundforge
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:43:20 GMT, "Brigitte J."
wrote:

I apologize if this is the wrong group for this question. If there's a
better group to ask, please point me in that direction.

I have an audio cassette I need to record onto my hard drive, so that I can
decrease the speed, then put it onto a CD-ROM.

A little background information so you know why I need to do this...

My unemployment appeals hearing took place over the phone, and was recorded
by the appeals court for records. They sent the tape to me and when I play
it back, it's way too fast. Because some of these hearing can last a long
time, and to conserve audio tapes, they record them at half-speed. My
attorney needs to hear this tape and be able to understand it, but at the
current speed, it just sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks on meth...

I've attempted to play the tape on a tape player and record into "Windows
Sound Recorder", and this works great, except that it won't allow me to tape
anything of any length. I get 60 seconds into it, and it stops recording.
I need to tape approximately 45 to 60 minutes and can't figure out how to
accomplish this.

Can you tell me how I can accomplish this without having to buy equipment
that I'll probably never need again? Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance for any ideas, advice or direction to where I can go for
help.

Thanks,
Brigitte

"Brigitte J." skrev i melding
...

Because some of these hearing can last a long
time, and to conserve audio tapes, they record them at half-speed. My
attorney needs to hear this tape and be able to understand it, but at the
current speed, it just sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks on meth...

Maybe someone at the appeals court can help you. After all they must have
machines that work at half speed so they can listen to the tapes and make
notes from them. It shouldn't me too difficult to connect one of these
machines to a conventional cassette recorder and re-record the tape.

Remember that if you increase the speed of an analogue tape you increase the
pitch. If you re-record this tape digitally and slow it down digitally the
voices will still be high pitched, and may be difficult to recognise, unless
you have a program that can pitch down the voices digitally.

If someone has a 1/4" tape machine they could record the session at one
speed and then replay it at half that speed to give you what you want (eg.
record at 3 3/4"/sec and replay at 1 7/8"/sec).


--
Andrew Walls
Near the Arctic Circle
Norway
[First name].[Last

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:27:57 +0200, "Andrew Walls"
wrote:

Remember that if you increase the speed of an analogue tape you increase the
pitch. If you re-record this tape digitally and slow it down digitally the
voices will still be high pitched, and may be difficult to recognise, unless
you have a program that can pitch down the voices digitally.

This is not correct. Slowing things down digitally has precisely the
same effect as slowing them down by analogue means. If the tape is
recorded to hard disk and then played back at half speed, it'll be
right.

There *are* some audio editors that offer the ability to alter speed
without changing pitch, but that involves complex resampling and is
not the default way that editors slow things down.

To the original poster: download GoldWave, record the tape to hard
disk, then use the Pitch or Time Warp effects to halve the speed.
--
Clive Backham

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