CAPTOR 3.6.6 (iOS): Audio Compression

Our CAPTOR apps are used by thousands of customers all over the world to handle many of the common situations where employees need to capture content on the job using their mobile device. For some that primarily involves taking photos, and for others it’s all about scanning documents to PDF. This month’s iOS app update is focused on improvements to our audio capture features.

Customers use CAPTOR to make audio recordings of meetings, interviews, or just for dictation (audio notes). We recently added Speech Recognition to CAPTOR, enabling text transcripts of audio recordings to be automatically generated. These transcripts can be copied out of CAPTOR, and they are also used to enhance the CAPTOR Search functionality.

For example, say you record a meeting with executives in which you’re discussing a potential merger with a company named Big Industries. A few months later you want to find that recording but you now have over a hundred audio recordings in CAPTOR and you cannot recall when the meeting occurred or what you named the file. No problem! Tap the Search button and type in “Big Industries” and the recording will come up. Also, any other content that mentions “Big Industries” will come up, including photos and documents where that text appears, as well as audio and video recordings in which the words are heard.

CAPTOR 3.6.6 (iOS) improves upon the Audio features by providing new file compression capabilities at the point of sharing/exporting recordings or backing them up to a content server. You will now be able to select a quality option (High, Medium, or Low) at the point of sharing, or as the backup quality. As always, our handy File Size Calculator will indicate how big the file will be so you can make adjustments before creating the file. This feature was requested by a customer who regularly creates long audio recordings, and the resulting files were quite large.

Another related change in 3.6.6 is that CAPTOR will now “remember” the quality you select for each individual file type. For example, if you select Medium quality for a M4A audio recording, it will default to Medium the next time you share that same file format. Similarly, if you share a photo as a High quality JPG, this setting will be remembered. You can always override and change the quality setting, but the hope is that this will reduce the number of taps it might take to complete the simple task of sharing content.