[urban]

I really like this idea of taking notes while recording the lecture but I can't afford to buy MS Office 2004 ( I have version X) I was wondering if there are similar programs out there that record and allow you to take notes..

Thanks.

[cpac]

um - is Word 2004 really supposed to be able to record a whole lecture (an hour plus)? And let the rest of its interface remain responsive?

If so that's more impressive than I thought - I was picturing more of a sort of cumbersome dictaphone for short audio clips.

[kcmac]

I wouldn't see why you couldn't record for an hour if you had the hard disk space.

You can record audio in mp4, aiff or wav. You can record at different quality settings from low to high and in between. You can record in mono or stereo.

At medium setting for mp4 it is 146 kilobytes per minute. At low setting it is at 58.

Could be pretty handy. I've never used it.

It does say in help that you must have a microphone hooked up if you want to take notes in Word notebook view when recording.

Don't know why you couldn't use TextEdit or something like that however if you wanted to use the internal mac mike.

[eggman]

Get Audio Hijack Pro. You can capture from the mike and multitask beautifully. The Pro version allows you to capture from the input device directly to MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, etc. $32 and a bargain at the price.

[SSharon]

for the record word 2004 works just fine when recording audio. I record most of my classes and its about 20mb/hour and word barely slows down on my ibook. to the original poster, can you get the student/teacher version? its much cheaper. also, I don't know of any other programs that let you record and take notes while matching them up. audio hijack cannot do this. thats the whole point of the notebook feature, to be able to record everything and then be able to easily play back specific selected parts.