Hi, Your review was well crafted and thought out. I shall takeea look at this program tonight. Great fun, as there's going to be an international friday night slash saturday afternoon party with myself and a few friends, so it will be the perfect venue to test this piece of software out.
Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Foret jr" <[email protected]> To: "Skype English list" <skypeenglish at emissives.com>; <bct at lists.blind-planet.com> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: [Skypeenglish] and the winner is, > Hi, > > Yesterday, on the Skype English list, I asked for a comparison between > Call burner and Call Graph. Most of the very few of y'all who bothered to > respond said that since I had paid for Call Burner, it really didn't > matter > which one I chose. Well, I now have my own answer having compared both > programs. > > First, Call Graph does in fact work well with JAWS version 9. The > installation was a snap and the interface is, for the most part, right > where > it needs to be in so far as accessibility is concerned. Once you've > authorized it, and told Windows Firewall that you want Call Graph to have > access to Windows, it's a snap to use. Call Graph rests in your system > tray > waiting for you to take control of it. When you press enter on Call Graph > from the system tray, you'll see the usual context menu which opens up in > such circumstances. To get to the configuration settings, just go down to > where it says "configuration" and press enter on this. When you do this, > you open up a multipage dialog box of the type with which you are already > familiar. From this point, most everything is in tab order but for one > interesting exception. When you are in the record tab, you must use the > JAWS curser to locate the file format radio buttons. By default, Call > Graph > is set to record mp3 files, and, if that is in fact what you want, there's > no need to go and change that. However, Call Graph does give you the > ability to record in .wav format just as Call burner does. If you want to > record in wav format, Just find the record in 16bit wav format in stereo > and > left click it once with the virtual left mouse button. That's all you > need > to do. IF you want to switch back to mp3, it's exactly the same process > except you left click the .mp3 button. The only other place you need to > use the JAWS curser is in the history. When you click on "history" from > the > context menu, you are placed in to an html window but you need to read and > manipulate this window with the JAWS curser. It's really not that hard to > manage. > > Okay, now for the really cool stuff. With Call Burner, if you wanted > to > record a Skype call in stereo, you need to record the separate parts of > the > call in and out. Then, you put both parts in to a sound editor and place > one file in the left channel and the other file in the right then save the > new combined file. With Call Graph, stereo recording is built in. Just > select two channel from the record tab and you're good to go. Yes, that's > right. Call Graph will automatically record your Skype calls in stereo. > Your side is in the left channel and the skype side is in the right. > Unlike Call Burner, there is not even a hint of distortion while recording > a > call. > > Well, that's just about it for now. Hey, not bad for free, I must say. > > They've really done a nice job with this one so far, and, I dare speculate > that there's going to be a lot of blind Skype users just grabbing this one > up for sure. > > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray > Phone: > 985-360-3375 > e-mail: > rforetjratcomcastdotnet > Skype Name: > barefootedray > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
