Archive for the 'Audio Record' Category

FAQ: How do I register the Audio record component?

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

How do I register the component?
Answer: Once you buy the component, a registration code will be sent to you by email. After creating an object instance of Active Audio Record in your favorite programming languages, calling the SetCode method with the code you got by email before recording. In this way, every limitation in trial […]

Record streaming audio in Vista

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

To record the “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Mix” on Vista with Audio Record Expert, you will need to enable the device first.

Select sound from the control panel.
Select the recording tab.
Right click on the background of the tab and choose “show disabled devices.”
Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable.
Now it should work the same way […]

Audio record component updated

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

We released a new version of Audio record component.
The major update is that we update some underline audio encoders. Feel free to upgrade or try

Deploy Audio record in web page

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Our audio record component can be used in web page via javascript or vbscript.
This allows developers to build online recording application by recording the audio on clients’ computer and uploading the audio file to servers. See more http://www.guangmingsoft.net/wordpress/index.php/153/record-audio-and-upload/

FAQ: Does AAR support simultaneous recording from different sources

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Yes, our Audio Record Component  supports recording multiple sources on the same PC.
Suppose you have more than one sound card installed, in order to record on the two cards simultaneously,

Active Audio Record Update

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

We just updated Active Audio Record. The features added are:
1. Play the VOX file. You can use the play object to play the raw VOX file by specifying the sample rate and channels

Using Active Audio Record in flash

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Flash movie has support for Action Script which is a kind of scripting language.
But it doesn’t provide built-in audio record functionality for flash developers.
Some developers uses Zinc which extends Action Script to include more powerful functions. One of them is the support for ActiveX control. (Note, not General ActiveX Automation). This makes it possible to use […]

Record audio with multiple sound cards

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Our audio record object can support recording with multiple sound cards. You can do like this:
1. Create multiple audio record objects at initialization time like this. (Take VB.Net as example)

Record Skype calls

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Have you ever wanted to record skype conversations?
When you are doing skype, there are two sound streams. One is the microphone input, which is your own voice. The other is the remote voice from the one you are chatting with. The two sound streams needs to be mixed and recorded in real time.
Audio Record Expert […]

Delay between StopRecord and StartRecord

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

A customer wants to do a quick start recording after stop recording when using our Active Audio Record object. He is concerning about the delay between the two calls.
I would say the delay is pretty small. The time is spent by the two calls, which is dependent on the sound card reaction speed for stopping […]

Use Active Audio Play Object in C#

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Our Audio Record component has  simple playback functions for mp3, wma, ogg or wave files.
You can use play object in C# easily like the record object since it is a standard COM object like the record one.

Make an audio recorder with voice activity detection

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I was often asked about a question about Active Audio Record component: Can I detect the input audio level without start recording?
The answer is NO. The reason is that if the recording is not started, sound card doesn’t sample any input signal then no audio level can be returned.

Audio play with Active Audio Record

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Active Audio Record is originally designed to be an audio recording component that can be used to record audio from any sources into common media files such as mp3, wma and ogg etc. In version 2, we add some simple audio play back functions.
When using such functions, please note the implementation of mp3, WMA play […]

Audio Recording in web browser

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Some customers ask how to do recording in web browser (IE) with Active Audio Record component.  It is quite doable since Active Audio Record is implemented as an ActiveX object and supports scripting. IE has well support for ActiveX via java script or VB script.
We have provided html demo that shows how to create the record object […]

Active Audio Record New Release

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Hi, Dear customers:
I am happy to anounce that we have just released a new version of Audio Record Component.
Check it out from this page:

Audio Record Expert Update

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Based on the new version of Active Audio Record Component,
We just released a new version of audio record expert:
1. FLAC support is added.