Does anyone have any idea how to solve this one?
I opened a new Word doc, then went to
Insert — Object — Wave Sound
with a mike plugged in, to create a small sound object. I hit the round red button to record, recorded only two
brief words, ‘testing, testing’ and hit stop, but there was no response on the flat green line as I spoke (yeah, the mike’s on) and then when I hit ‘stop’ I got an ‘out of memory’ error, specifically “Sound Recorder: Not enough memory to complete this operation. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and then try again.”
That blows, because I only have Firefox and Word open, and my system has enough RAM AFAIK (nominally 4GB).
I’m running:
System XP 2002 home ed, SP2
Word from Office Pro 2003
Intel Core 2
6420 @ 2.13GHz
1.60 GHz, 3.50 GB or RAM
What gives?
All I want to do is insert a few pictures like horse, sheep, etc., and then add sound icons next to them to play the words for those pictures in Mandarin, to send to my nephews, who asked me to teach them some Chinese.
Try “Create From File” (instead of “Create New”) and do the recordings outside of Word (BEFORE you try to add them, obviously). At least to see if your sound recorder is working OK.
Does Office come with any kind of recording software I should be using to ‘do the recordings outside of Word’, or do you have any downloadable freeware you’d recommend for this purpose? Think tech-clueless here.
[quote=“Dragonbones”]Thanks! Did that, and I am getting exactly the same problem.
I did double check to make sure the mic is in the mic hole, too, and the mic turned on. :s[/quote]Do you normally use a microphone with that computer without any problems? If not, you might need to set up the mixer correctly. Double click on the Volume icon (the little round speaker one) in the taskbar at the bottom right of the screen. Go to Options > Properties, select Recording > OK, and play about with the level controls and checkboxes. You may need to click the Advanced button and check Mic Boost.
[quote=“joesax”][quote=“Dragonbones”]Thanks! Did that, and I am getting exactly the same problem.
I did double check to make sure the mic is in the mic hole, too, and the mic turned on. :s[/quote]Do you normally use a microphone with that computer without any problems? If not, you might need to set up the mixer correctly. Double click on the Volume icon (the little round speaker one) in the taskbar at the bottom right of the screen. Go to Options > Properties, select Recording > OK, and play about with the level controls and checkboxes. You may need to click the Advanced button and check Mic Boost.[/quote]
Sorry, I didn’t realise you’d replied, DB.
Yeah, what joesax says is what you need to do. Also, before clicking OK (after chooseing “Recording”), make sure that “Microphone” is actually ticked.
Oh, joesax’s suggestion seems to have worked. After turning up the mic volume I get a reaction in the green sound line as I record. The software still gives me the same error message when I hit stop, but now the resulting speaker icon gives proper playback. That is, it works despite the error message, which is now just a visual nuisance.
I’ll check those out too, Fortigurn, thanks!
Now, next question: Is there a way in Word to replace the speaker icon with another picture, like a cat for a recording of the Chinese word for cat, and dog for gou3 and so on, or should I just juxtapose them?
