How to Add a Voice Recording
Why Use This Function:
Voice recordings are a beneficial tool to the Practitioner regarding documentation of notes, comments and findings in a quicker and easier way. Practitioners are able to record themselves and save notes for future reference. The Voice Record screen has a transcription function that generates notes as the Practitioner is talking during the recording. These notes can be copied and pasted into the active form or any external documents.
💡Please Note: A Voice Recording can be made wherever the Add Voice Recording button is displayed.
- This user manual will start on the Voice Recorder screen.
- Click on the Enter the Description of Voice Note field to add an explanation of what the Voice Note will be about.
- Click on the Select Input Device drop-down menu to select the desired input device from the list that becomes available.
💡Please Note: The options available on the list are dependent on the devices on your computer.
- Click on the Select Transcription Language drop-down menu. to select the desired transcription language from the list that becomes available.
- En: The system will transcribe the English spoken voice recording into English text.
- Af: The system will transcribe the Afrikaans spoken voice recording into Afrikaans text.
- Click on the Microphone button to start recording the desired audio.
- The Microphone button will change to a Pause button, and flash red whilst the recording is happening.
- Click on the Pause button to stop the recording process. The Record button can be Clicked again to continue where left off.
- Click on the Listen button to start playing the audio recording.
- Click on the Pause button on the recording to stop the audio from playing back.
- Hover on the Volume button to set the volume.
- Click on the Volume button to mute the audio.
- Click on the Kebab menu for additional options.
- A sub-menu will open.
- Click on the Download option to download the audio file onto the user's computer.

- The Audio will be downloaded.
- Click on the Playback Speed option.
- An additional sub-menu will appear with Listening Speed options. The listening speed can be changed to make the audio recording play faster or slower than the default speed.
- Click on the Clear Recording button to permanently remove the audio recording and related transcription.
- Click on the Load From External Upload button to upload any external audio recordings from an external application or the user's computer.
- For more information regarding External Audio recordings, please refer to the user manual: How to Capture Audio on Cloud Capture.
- Click on the Transcribe button.
- The Transcribed text will display in the text field.
- Click on the Copy to Clipboard button to copy the transcribed text and paste the information into an external document as desired.
- Click the Close button to save the Voice Recording.
- Once the audio has been saved, the New Voice Recording will appear on the form on which the recording was made.
- For more information on the Recording buttons, please refer to the user manual: How to Create a Consultation Transcription for GoodXpert.
Last modified: Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 7:47 AM