VoiceNotes

How to Setup the Voice Recorder

Prerequisites: Have all of the previously mentioned Tools.

Step 1 Take 1 fully-charged iPod Touch and 1 iPod Touch external microphone.

Step 2 Press the center button at the bottom of the iPod Touch. This is called the Home Button.

Step 3 The iPod will turn on and you will see a screen that displays the time, day of the week, date, and a white rectangle with rounded edges next to the words "slide to unlock".

Step 4 Touch the rectangle and drag it by sliding your finger across the words **slide to unlock**. If the iPod's screen turns off before you can slide it, just press the Home Button again and repeat step 4.

Step 5 After having unlocked the iPod, you should see the iPod Touch Springboard. The Springboard is a collection of 4 x 5 grids of brightly colored icons. These icons are links to iPod Touch Apps which do various useful functions on the iPod, like play music, check your email, or browse the web.

Step 6 You can drag your finger across the middle of screen to switch between the different grids of Apps that comprise the Springboard. Notice that the bottom 4 Apps do not change. These are called the dock. Also, if you slide to the furthermost left page, you will see a box where you can enter text and a keyboard. This is used for searching the iPod for files, and is unnecessary for using Voice Notes, so slide to the right again to see the Apps.

Step 7 Look through the Springboard to find an App with a picture of a Microphone on it. It will say **Voice Memos** underneath. This is the link to the Voice Recorder App. On the Uni iPods, the Voice Memos app is the leftmost App on the dock.

Step 8 Press the link to the Voice Memos App with your finger. When it opens, you will see an image of a microphone, and underneath it a Volume scale and 2 buttons. To exit an App at any time, simply press the Home Button.

Step 9 If you wish, you can physically turn the iPod upside-down, and the accelerometer inside of the iPod will turn the screen upside-down as well. This changes the position of the iPod's external microphone in relation to whatever you are recording, and can sometimes make recording simpler, but this is completely optional.

Step 10 Once the iPod has the microphone plugged in and the Voice Notes App is running, you are ready to start recording!

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the screen. This will switch between various pages of Apps. which we will use. . The series of screens * Plug an iPod Touch microphone into the headphone jack of an iPod Touch.

Unlock the iPod Touch.
 * Step 2**

Open the iPod Touch application **Voice Notes**. Note: Voice Notes is an app that is built in to the iPod Software, and thus will already be on the iPod.
 * Step 3**

Press the bottom-left button with the red circle (**record**). Once hit, the top bar of the screen will turn red and have a timer showing how much time has already been recorded. Note: The iPod will not allow you to start recording unless there is a recognizable microphone plugged in.
 * Step 4**

Once the microphone is plugged in and Voice Notes is recording, simply speak into the microphone. If the microphone is not attached to headphones, hold the iPod roughly 1.5 feet away and speak at a normal volume. If the microphone is attached to headphones, the iPod does not have an optimized location, as the microphone on the headphone cables has already been placed. Note: If the iPod has a non-headphone microphone, it can be held upside down for better clarity and the screen will rotate to accommodate this position.
 * Step 5**

After Voice Notes has started recording, the red button will turn into a red pause sign (two vertical bars), which you will press to end the recording session.
 * Step 6**

To listen to the recording with the iPod's internal speaker, press the bottom-right button with three black horizontal bars. This will bring up a chronological list of all of the saved recordings and you can press the time of the recording to select it, and the the white triangle to listen to it. Note: Non-headphone microphones disable sound, so the microphone must be unplugged to listen to the recording.
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