Built-in player

Recordings play in Desktop Call Recorder's own player, so you do not need another audio app. It has speed control, a volume boost for quiet calls, and a transcript that follows the audio.

Playing a recording

Select a recording in the list and it opens in the player. The waveform shows the whole call. Click or drag anywhere on it to jump to that point. The 30 second back and forward buttons, or the ← and → keys, skip through the call, and the time next to them shows where you are.

Two channels in one recording

The waveform has two halves. Above the centre line is the left channel, your own voice ("Me"). Below it is the right channel, the person you spoke to. Every recording keeps the two sides of the call apart like this, and that is how the transcript knows who said what.

Speed

Playback speed goes from 0.5× to 2.0× in steps of 0.25. Pitch is kept, so voices sound normal even at double speed, and the transcript keeps up at any speed.

Volume

The volume control goes from 0% to 400%. 100% is the level the call was recorded at, and anything higher makes a quiet recording louder, with limiting so it does not distort. It is one control for the whole recording.

Transcript during playback

If the recording has a transcript, it plays along. The line being spoken is highlighted and scrolls into view as the audio moves. Click any line and playback jumps to that moment.

Find a recording

Above the recordings list are a search box, two date boxes for a date range, a messenger filter and the sort order (newest first, name or messenger). The search box looks through recording names and the text of every transcript. How it works is on the search and rename page.