See Also: How To Use Controls Example; Quick Reference Table for Controls and Data Types; Add Existing Field Animated Demo; Add New Field Animated Demo

After creating an Edit Wave Field, you will see this little box with 3 buttons:

NOTE: An Edit Wave control must use a String Data Type (as the box that pops up will tell you once you drop the control onto the Contact Details Form).

When you view the Contact Details Form for the contact you wish to record a personal wave for, if no recording already exists, the Edit Wave Field will appear like this:

Notice how the Edit or Listen to Wave Recording Button is blank.  Once you have recorded a wave file for that contact, a microphone will appear in the button as shown above.

To create a new wave recording, click on the Create or Open Wave Recording button.  The Open Wave box will appear:

If you named the Edit Wave Field appropriately, the name of the file should already be populated for you. What you name your Edit Wave Field is very important.  If you include the name of the field you wish to assign this control to (i.e. FirstName) within the name of the Edit Wave Field you are creating, ContactTalk will automatically assume that means for the FirstName field to apply to this Field.

In other words, if you name your new Edit Wave Control "FirstNamewave", and you go to record the wave for one of your contacts named George Miller, ContactTalk will automatically name the recording "George.wav" when you click on the Create or Open Wave Recording Button, and that way, you will not have to type a name for the wave recording each time.

This will also be beneficial because it will mean that you will not have to record the same name or phrase more than once because automatically, every contact named George will have a wave file name George.wav.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will still need to click on the Create or Open Wave Recording button on each contact named George, but you will just have to select Open and then Close the Record Audio window and will not have to record the wave file again.

You can always change the name of the wave file here if you wish.  Once you select Open, the Record Audio window will appear.

Click the Start Recording button, speak your phrase into the microphone, then click the same button again which will now say Stop Recording.  You can playback the recording, start over, adjust the volume, etc...  Once finished, click the Close button.  Your wave file for that contact has been recorded and can now be inserted into any Voice Action Item you wish.