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I agree with Bob.

Posted By: Mel. White
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 7:24 a.m.(pst)

In Response To: Re: Software that let’s me send my voice messages by email? (Bob E.)

You can record short messages with the existing software on your computer... it comes with this. Windows' "Sound recorder" (search in the help topics) makes .wav files of 60 seconds or so. You can then attach them to email. Just about any file would work for a voice recording -- but you have to be sure that the other person has the software for listening to it on their computer. There are 4 main formats: Quicktime, Wav, RealAudio, and MP3. There's a number of different types of players out there (there are free ones for each of those), but the question will be whether your recipient has the right one and the right version.

Downsides of voice files include that they are sometimes stripped from files depending on how the security is set at the receiving end. Longer files will be too large for some mailboxes. It's also hard to document for business purposes and points can be missed. If there's any question, it turns into a "he said she said." Keeping copies of your voice messages will fill up your hard drive fast, and there is no convenient way to search them (unlike email where you can search on keywords. So you can't find a copy of a message you sent to Jack Sprat that told him about fats and cholesterol just by doing an ordinary text search. You'd have to play every single message to Jack and try to remember how you started that message to him.

And there's no magic way for the recipient to find your message in an inbox full of other messages they have to keep for documentation.

Your relatives and friends may not want voice messages and may not listen to them. My dad wouldn't, for instance (he's not very good with computers), and my mother in law would rather have a phone call. My daughter text messages rather than using emails (she works many long hours and text allows her to take a quick peek when she can.) I'd ask them if they want such a thing before sending it to their inbox.

You *could* try a middle ground... a program such as Dragon, where you simply talk and the computer types the words for you. It's not bulletproof and you do have to train it, but it allows you to talk and turns it into readable and searchable text.

Or you could just phone them.

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