Archive for April, 2007

Optional email notification of completed recordings

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Email notification of completed recordings is now optional. If you would like to be notified by email when your recording is ready for download.

Just select Yes from the Sent me an email when this recording is completed select list when submitting your text for recording.

Mark

You can now delete multiple recordings at one time on the view recordings page

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

You can now delete multiple recordings at one time on the view recordings page.

Just click the check box next to the recordings you want to delete or click the recording name to select the recording you want to delete and press the delete button.

Login and check it out.

Mark

You can now record RSS 2 news feeds

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

I just added support for recording RSS 2 news feeds.

To record a News Feed.

  1. Login to your account
  2. Click the New Recording button
  3. Click the Record News Feed tab
  4. Enter the URL for the RSS 2 feed you want to record
  5. Set a limit for how many of the articles in the feed you want to record. The default is the first 5 articles
  6. Click Record

As always if you have any issues, comments or suggestions for how to improve this feature send us an email.

Mark

Tips for recording PDF files

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

If you ever have issues recording a PDF it maybe for the following reasons.

1. You tried to record a PDF encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM). SpokenText cannot record files protected with DRM. As all text contained within the document is encrypted. And not available for recording.

2. There maybe an error in your PDF file. If possible try using Adobe Acrobat to convert the PDF file to a text file. To do this in Acrobat click File -> Save as Text and then uploaded the text file to your account for recording.

3. You tried to record a PDF which contained only images. At present SpokenText cannot read text embedded in images.

As a general rule when ever possible convert your PDF file to text files (.txt). This will insure that they will be recorded.