This tool is used to cut one large prerecorded ".wav" file into smaller files. Silences are used as prompt delimiters.
Select the filenames under which the recorded messages will be saved. You can browse to an existing script file, in which case the filenames are taken from the script file itself. If you don't enter a "save-to" path in the tape loader defaults then the complete path (without extension though, it is always ".wav") has to be entered in the script file itself. If a save-to directory is entered in the loader defaults only a filename (without extension) must be entered in the script file.
Alternatively you can have Vox Studio generate the filenames automatically. The computed filenames will consist of a fixed radix (root) and a variable (incremented) digital tail (suffix). The counting can be decimal or hexadecimal, as preferred. If you don't know what hexadecimal notation is, just select decimal. For example, if the starting filename template's radix is ivrsys and the trailing counter is 00, then filenames from ivrsys00.wav to ivrsys99.wav can be generated. If the starting radix is ivr and the trailing number is 1087, then filenames from ivr1087.wav to ivr9999.wav will be generated. If you have selected to automatically generate filenames, then the default filename prefix and suffix will be proposed at the top of the window and you can modify it there if you want.
The next step is to decide how the file slicer is going to detect the separation between recorded messages. You can have Vox Studio do this for you by detecting a predefined (and settable) number of seconds of silence. It would be a good idea to have 3 to 5 seconds of silence as a delimiter on your recordings. Of course, you will have to direct the recording studio to do that for you. You can also select what length of silence represents the end of all tape recordings. This should be much longer than the longest separation on the tape. Finally, you can also set the threshold level Vox Studio is going to use to detect the difference between silence and speech (or speech and silence). You can use a setting in %RMS or in decibels.
Finally, select the disk directory where the new files will be stored.
The File Slicer command can also be activated by clicking on 
in the toolbar section.