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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: I seen 'em   (Was Re: Next and the competition)
Message-ID: <5830@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Dec 88 16:15:25 GMT
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Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali T. Ozer)
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In article <JEFF.88Dec28165044@stormy.atmos.washington.edu> 
jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff L. Bowden) writes:
>I ran the mail program and tried to send myself voice mail.  No luck.  I think
>that the microphone was not hooked up because I followed the instructions
>completely but it didn't play back any sound to me when I requested it.  

You should note that the NeXT machine doesn't have a built-in microphone;
did you have an external one hooked up?

If you just want to test sound record/playback, you can also use the
sfrecord/sfplay utilities from the shell:

	sfrecord FILENAME
	sfplay FILENAME

Sfrecord will record 8kHz sound into the specified file, sfplay will play
it back. (Sfplay can also play back 22 and 44 kHz samples sound.)
Other sf* programs exist to "optimize" gain, change sampling
rates (from 8kHz to 22 or 44), trim samples, etc... (Look at /usr/bin/sf*.)

A sound record/play facility also exists in Interface Builder.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com