Amazingly or not, this function is still around on the Mac, although now days its called Add to Music as a Spoken Track: a great way of producing audio files from text.

Interesting what 10 years can do in how ones voice sounds more confident and relaxed smile.

David 2021

On a previous podcast, here is my catch up demo using 3 LIDAR apps on my iPhone 12 Pro.

As I mainly use People Detection, I focus in this demo mainly on Super LIDAR and the Magnifier apps.

As I say in the podcast, this demo is demoing the ECG function of the Apple Watch for folks here in Australia.

The next demo will be using LIDAR on the iPhone 12 Pro using the Magnification, Super LiDAR, and Seeing AI apps.

Quite like the way this remote feels, works, but still some things to work out, namely scrolling through a movie with vO on, and moving apps around on the Home screen.

Great remote, much prefer itr over the Siri Touch V1 remote.

My first go at actually recording a webinar using the Zoom Podtrak P4.

Still somethings to iron out like which mic to mute (Zoom or P4 grin), and doing a bit better myself changing in and out cables.

However, the recording you are hearing hasn't been touched, just conversion to MP3 for the podcast post.

I think it went well.

In this demo, I take you through how easy it is to use the Files menu from the main menu to playback and delete files you don't want from the P4 itself.

Enjoy, and the last one in this series for the moment as I've covered all the thrings I need to do up to this point, but there will be more smile.

In this demo, I show you how to directly transfer files between the P4 and in my case the Mac, via the P4 menu option File Transfer (press menu and press right 3 times, and select file transfer).

Simply puts the P4 in to a mass storage mode (turning off knobs and mics), and comes up as a P4 drive when connected via a USBC cable connected to the power/data port on the P4 (front left hand side port).

To exit file transfer, just press menu twice, and knobs and mics will return to normal operation.

Much better and safer than dragging out the SD card all the time which is exactly what I've been doing sigh smile.

In this demo I take you through using the Sound Pad sub-menu from the main menu for selecting different sounds, the way they repeat, and the volume of a sound.

The first time you go in to the menu via the Menu button, press right arrow (Stop button), then Enter/Select (Record button) to bring up the Sound Pad custom sub-menu.

If you don't restart the Podtrak P4, next time you go out and in to the menu, Sound Pad will already be selected, so just press Enter.

As nothing talks as such in these menus, just practise ggoing in and out and it will become easier.

In this demo, I show you how you can use the Sound Pad to:

 

Top Left button rewind, time jump or beginning of file,

 

Top right button fast forward, time jump or end of file, and

 

Bottom left button beginning of file.

 

When using the Sound Pad buttons, use the Play/Pause button. Pressing Stop will revert the Sound Pad files back to their usual function.: i.e. playing sounds.

Enjoy. Due to the Podtrak P4 and getting excited about podcasting again, I've added my intro/out sound file that L Woodbridge did for me to the Podtrak for future use.

And yes, I'll be doing a demo later on accessing the Sound Pad, which is not strictly accessible, but works as you can tell with this intro I added to my Sound Pad.

Am I having fun, absolutely.