HT Professional Recorder

A “feature-rich” recording app has now been made very user-friendly with VoiceOver. The name of the app is “HT Professional Recorder”. There are separate versions for the Ipad and for the Iphone or Ipod. If you purchase either one of the apps, it will be $6.99; if you pur- chase a second version of the application, it will be $3.99. The seller is “Applied Voices, LLC”, and the developer is Andrew Berlin. Once you have used this app, you will wonder how you ever lived without it. Some of the out- standing features of the app – but by no means all of them – are:  The ability to name files and folders.  The ability to move files between folders.  List all files without folder names in one list.  Compress files individually or compress a folder all at one time. (I have found there is no degradation of sound quality by compressing files.)  3 levels of mic gain are available to suit your recording needs. Whether you are dictating a note to yourself in a crowded, noisy room or recording in a large classroom, there is a setting to meet your needs.  Cut, copy, trim, & paste editing tools are amongst some of the most valuable and unusual features in this app. It is so nice to be able to record over part of a record- ing you don’t want. The ability to append to the end of a recording - like the most important sack of candy you left off your grocery list – becomes pretty valuable.  There is also a feature that allows you to bookmark your recordings so you can find special points of interest that you may want to reference in the future.  Speed up and slow down the playback speed of your recordings.  Skip ahead or go back 5 seconds at a time, while playing a recording.  Music recording at a sample rate of 44,100 kHz. The easiest way to read the manual is to either open it up in “Voice Dream Reader” or “IBooks”. The developer of the app, who, by the way, prefers to go by “Andy”, has been most patient and helpful to get the app compatible with VoiceOver. I’m sure as other VoiceOver users use HT Professional Recorder, they will find other suggestions. Andy will do his best to accommodate your ideas in future updates. To contact him, you may e-mail him from your app at: htpro@appliedvoices.com. To e-mail him from the app, go to “More Choices” on the menu, and then choose “Report a problem”. I found this app to be one of the most useful in my arsenal of tools that I use on my IOS devices. It’s right up there with Voice Dream , Kindle, NLS, and Seeing Eye GPS . I hope you will find HT Professional Recorder as valuable and helpful on a daily basis as I have. Thanks to Andrew Berlin for all his hard work in making HT Professional Recorder user-friendly for VoiceOver users. This is my first posting to AppleVis. Please excuse any errors.