Capturing Audio and Video Notes 585
Capturing Audio and Video Notes.
If your computer system includes a microphone, such as a built-in microphone or a free-
standing or headset microphone, you can record audio directly into a file stored on a
OneNote notebook page. (You’ll get the best results by using a headset microphone.)
Similarly, if your system includes a built-in or external webcam, you can record video
directly into a file stored on a OneNote notebook page.
You can record audio that is playing on your computer, or audio that you speak, sing,
or otherwise communicate through a microphone.
Tip If you haven’t already configured your audio input device, you can do so by using the
Microphone Setup Wizard available from the Speech Recognition window of Control Panel.
You can record video that you capture by using a webcam. The quality of the video you
capture depends greatly on the webcam, lighting, and other factors not specific to
OneNote. Many portable computers have built-in webcams that will automatically work
with OneNote. If you don’t have a built-in webcam, you can purchase one that connects
to your desktop or portable computer through a USB cable.
Video is recorded and displayed in a window separate from the OneNote program window.
You can move it around the screen by dragging its title bar, change its size by dragging
the window frame, and minimize, maximize, or restore it by clicking the buttons on the
window’s title bar. If you’re working on a Windows 7 computer, you can use the new win-
dow-management techniques such as Snap To Screen and Shake to manage the video
window as you would any other.
The first time you record an audio or video clip, OneNote prompts you to indicate
whether you want to configure the recordings so that OneNote can search the audio
recording or the audio track of the video recording for spoken words. By enabling
the Audio Search feature, spoken words matching the search criteria you enter in the
Search box will be included in search results. For this feature to work effectively, the au-
dio recording must be of a high quality, words must be spoken clearly, and the spoken
language must match that of the OneNote user interface. Audio Search is currently sup-
ported for nine languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.