Using PureVoice Sound Files

To improve your spoken language, you and the professor will exchange Purevoice sound files. This page teaches you how to send the sound of your voice in email. Learn to play, record, and revise Purevoice sound files. Simple to use, small in size and adequate for voice recordings, Purevoice sound files can be sent as email attachments. Purevoice comes free with Eudora Pro Email or from the web.

Listen to a PureVoice Sample

This is a QuickTime file converted from a PureVoice sound file in order for you to play it on the web. Download the QuickTime plugin and install it in your browser if you don't already have it.

Getting Ready

  1. Make sure that you have Qualcomm PureVoice installed on your computer. If you have Eudora Mail, you already have PureVoice. If you need to download PureVoice from the web, click here: http://www.eudora.com/purevoice/pluginDL.html More info below.
  2. If you are using an external microphone, plug it into the sound input port on your computer. Place the mic on top of your monitor facing you.
  3. Make sure that your system volume is on and not muted. The following instructions explain how to do it on a Macintosh. The method on Windows and Unix are similar.
  4. Open your computer's Control Panels (Mac: From the Apple menu).
5 If you are using an external speaker, plug it into the sound output port on your computer and turn it on.

Recording and Playing a PureVoice Sound File

  1. Locate the PureVoice application, either by following the path where you downloaded it, or by using your operating systems Find or Search function. (If you downloaded Eudora Mail, you'll find PureVoice in the Eudora Stuff folder.)
  2. Make an alias of PureVoice and place it among your frequently used applications.
  3. Launch PureVoice. You will see a screen that looks like this:
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  4. Click the round Record button on the control panel and say a few words.
  5. Click the square Stop button to stop recording.
  6. Click the left-most triangular Play button to play the recording.
  7. Make adjustments on the sound out (the slider with the speaker icon) and the sound in (the slider with the microphone icon), as necessary.
  8. To add more to your existing recording, select Insert from the pop-up menu. To record over, select Overwrite. You cannot delete an existing recording or part except by overwriting it. The Overwrite function overwrites everything from the insertion point until the end of the file.
  9. Save your file with a .qcp extension.
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Responding to a PureVoice Sound File Assignment

Use this method when the professor sends you a sound file and asks questions to which you need to respond.

  1. Save the original file in your online pronunciation folder. (Create this folder if you haven't already done so).
  2. Save the original file as a new name. For example, if there is a generic name, substitute your name (e.g., save NameWk25a.qcp as JoeWk25a.qcp); otherwise, add a number just before the .qcp extension (e.g., save JoeWk25a.qcp as JoeWk25a1.qcp).
  3. Double click on the file to open the file. This will launch PureVoice if it isn't already open.
  4. In the newly named sound file, listen to the first question or task and then click Stop.
  5. Using the Insert function, record your response.
  6. Review your response.
  7. If you are satisfied with your response, save the file.
  8. If you are not satisfied with your response, close the file. When prompted to save it, click Don't Save. Reopen the file and repeat steps 4-6.
  9. Play the next question or task and click Stop.
  10. Using the Insert function, record your response.
  11. If you are satisfied with your response, save the file. Otherwise, follow step 8.
  12. For the last question or task at the end of the file, there may be instructions or comments given by the professor which the professor will not need to listen to, In this case, use the Overwrite function to record your last response. This will in effect erase the unnecessary speech at the end.
  13. Save the file.
  14. Listen to your homework file again and ensure that it meets the task requirements in content, length, size, etc., You can always start from scratch from the original file if you desire.
  15. Attach the file to an email message.
  16. Open your email software. Create a message addressed to the professor. Click Attach or Enclose. Browse to the file in your online pronunciation folder. Attach the file. Send the email message with the sound file attached.

Using PureVoice from within Eudora Mail

  1. Launch Eudora.
  2. Click the New Message button from the main toolbar.
  3. Click the PureVoice button from the message toolbar. The logo looks like a Q with yellow sound waves emanating from it. This launches PureVoice.
  4. Make your recording and save it according to the instructions above.
  5. Click the Attach button to attach this file to your email message. Write your email body text, and send both files at once.

Downloading PureVoice from the internet

To download the PureVoice Player-Recorder, point your browser to: http://www.eudora.com/purevoice/pluginDL.html or ftp at <ftp://ftp.eudora.com/>. When you get to the QUALCOMM website, follow the links to choose the version of PureVoice that fits your computer platform: Windows, PowerMacintosh or Unix.

Hardware requirements: Windows compatible 16-bit sound system (a microphone to create voice messages); Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 or Windows NT 4.0; 486/33 MHz or faster; 8 MB RAM -- OR -- A Power Macintosh or 68K Macintosh with 68020 or better processor; Macintosh System 7.0.1 or later -- 7.5 or later recommended; Sound Manager 3.2.1 or later; (a microphone to create voice messages) -- OR -- Unix SunSolaris 2.5 or higher

Software requirements: E-mail software that supports MIME attachments (Eudora 3.0.1 or later is recommended); E-mail software that supports long file names (again, Eudora is ideal)

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