Functionality
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This chapter summarizes the main capabilities of Vox Studio. You will find detailed usage information in the chapter on menus and commands.

·Vox Studio provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to record and play prompt files in a wide variety of telecom formats. You need a PC operating Windows and equipped with a multimedia sound card to record or play back.  

·Vox Studio can perform file conversions between all the multimedia and telephony file formats it knows. Conversion from stand-alone files to multi-prompt (indexed) files and back is possible too. Vox Studio 3 supports long filenames. You do not need a sound card if you are only going to do conversions.  

·The Prompter is similar to the visual tool from which TV news anchors and public speakers read their announcements.  

·The Tape Loader will automatically digitize a prerecorded (studio) tape, detect silences between successive prompts, decide where to cut and then save each prompt under a preassigned file name.  

·The File Slicer will take a large existing ".wav" file as input, detect the silences between successive prompts, and then decide where to cut and save under a preassigned file name.  

·Vox Studio can generate files containing DTMF tone sequences or can insert DTMF tones into existing files. It can also detect and remove DTMF tones from sound files.  

·Special tools are available for high-pass and low-pass filtering, DTMF filtering, DC offset removal, silence trimming and volume normalization.  

·The above functions can be performed in automated "batch" mode so that you can produce thousands of files very rapidly.  

·Vox Studio has drag-and-drop capability. You can select multiple telephony or multimedia files from within another program and drop them onto Vox Studio with your mouse. This will load or play the files you selected. All file formats supported by Vox Studio can be handled like this.  

·Vox Studio also offers a command-line interface and a DLL that allow programmers to utilize the Vox Studio voice file formatting, coding and compression conversion capabilities from within their own applications. Detailed command-line and DLL reference information for programmers is available in the on-disk documentation or can be obtained from Xentec.  

To find out more about what Vox Studio can do, browse through the subjects below:

Recording functionality
Teleprompter functionality
Tape Loader functionality
File Slicer functionality
Playback functionality
Waveform Display functionality
Conversion functionality
Group and Ungroup functionality
Offset Removal functionality
Amplitude Normalization functionality
Silence Adjustment functionality
Intelligibility Filter
DTMF Generation functionality
DTMF Filtering functionality
High-and Low-Pass filtering functionality