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• Set up your general computer environment
  • Get a Windows computer
    • Get on the internet
    • Get a good audio card; Many audio cards produce noisy recordings
      • Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 and AWE-64 have been safe bets.
      • Turtle Beach sound cards have long had the best reputation.
      • If you're getting a laptop PC, look for one with the Crystal Semiconductor CS4232 audio chip or later.
      • One of our demo laptops is a Dell Inspiron 8100 with ESS Maestro PCI Audio (WDM), manufactured by ESS Technology, Inc.
  • Install a browser such as Netscape Navigator 7.01 or newer. (Available for free from home.netscape.net.)
• Set up your audio recording environment
  • You need to have a good quality sound card. You can produce Microsoft .wav format audio files for the LSM any way you want, but here is one approach that is effective and costs little to nothing, that uses a shareware program called CoolEdit.
    • Download Cool Edit 2000 from the internet. (you can hunt for similar applications at www.shareware.com, for example.) Register your copy, it's the honorable thing to do, and costs almost nothing at only $69.
    • Uncompress the downloaded CoolEdit distribution using WinZip (also available on the internet) into some directory such as \cooledit.
    • Create a shortcut for cool.exe on the desktop (right mouse button on the desktop gives a menu; select "New", then "Shortcut", then Browse to \cooledit or your equivalent, and select cool.exe.
    • Execute Cool by clicking on the Cool shortcut button on the desktop.
    • Tell CoolEdit what audio devices to use, by pulling down the Options menu, select wave device, specify your wave record and wave playback devices (on one of our Toshiba 730XCDT laptops, both are "CS4232").
• Record a .wav format waveform file that works with the LSM:
  • In CoolEdit, pull down the File menu and select New.
  • Then specify 16000Hz mono 16-bit audio recording parameters.
  • Then click on the RECORD button on the console.
  • Re-record until you have a nice high volume level, but with no clipping (over-recording) and a nice low noise level (use a mic or mic with pre-amp if your environment is noisy), or record from tape into your PC.
• Save the audio in a file: pull down the File menu, select Save As, then give it a name and say OK.
• Edit a plain text file of the same file name but with the extension .txt
  • The DOS "edit" program makes plain text files.
  • MS Word can save plain text files: "Save As">>"Text Only with Line Breaks".
• From within an internet browser such as Netscape Navigator, upload both files to the LSM:
  • Tell Navigator to go to ftp://ftp.sprex.com/in
  • and then drag and drop the files into that directory.
• Run the LSM:
  • go to sprex.com/lsm,
  • click "Use It" (Do It),
  • fill out the form, specifying 16000Hz .wav format audio, and
  • click "Start" at the bottom of the form.