Archive for the ‘Vocaroo’ Category

Vocaroo Express – Send Voice Messages in Windows Mail

This is a small app for sending voice messages using your default email client (i.e. Outlook Express, Windows Mail, etc…). I guess it’s still in beta… but please give it a try!

Click here for more info
Features:

Simple to use. Click to record, click to stop, and click to send!
Send voice messages as an attachment using your [...]

Embedding the Vocaroo widget in a Wordpress.com blog

…is not possible, sorry :(
Wordpress.com blogs don’t seem to allow the embedding of any flash media except from a few big companies such as YouTube, who they must have some kind of agreement with…

There are dumb questions

There are dumb questions and there are dumb questions
You get questions written in bad grammar with lots of spelling mistakes, where the person uses a roundabout route and the wrong terms to ask how to do something. But that’s not a dumb question; this person is just a bad typist and is not all that [...]

Vocaroo widget now supports custom colours!

A small addition, the Vocaroo voice recording widget can now have its colour customised! It does require you to edit the embed code though.

Default green………..Custom blue!

Get the updated widget code as usual, in English or French.
Notes:

There are three colours that can be customised, backgroundCol, buttonLineCol, and buttonFillCol. Their names should be explanation enough :)
Colours [...]

How to embed the Vocaroo voice recorder in your website

Just another Vocaroo tip!
A proper API and toolkit for adding voice recording functionality to websites is planned, but until it’s ready, here’s a way you can let people send you a voice message directly from your website, using an IFRAME:
<iframe src="http://vocaroo.com/?replyto=email@address.com" width="600" height="700"></iframe>
(replace “email@address.com” with your own email address)
This will give:

It’s a bit ugly though, [...]

10 things to do with Vocaroo

10 things to do with Vocaroo, the online voice recorder.
1) Send someone a voice email. Duh :)
2) Start a game in a web forum or community you belong to. Compare accents from around the world.
3) Post a link to your voice on bebo, myspace, facebook…
4) Use it in a school as a teaching aid.
5) Use [...]