Galaxy Note Tips & Tricks

Voice Recorder

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Get to know how to use Voice Recorder application on Galaxy Note 3  to record or play voice memos. You will learn recording voice memos, changing the recording mode, playing voice memos, managing voice memos, saving files with contextual tags, managing categories, and viewing the Bookmarks list.

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1) Recording voice memos
2) Changing the recording mode
3) Playing voice memos
4) Managing voice memos
5) Saving files with contextual tags
6) Managing categories
6.1) Creating a category
6.2) Changing a category
7) Viewing the Bookmarks list

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Use Voice Recorder application on Galaxy Note 3  to record or play voice memos.

Tap Voice Recorder on the Applications screen.

Recording voice memos

Tap  to start recording. Speak into the microphone at the top of Galaxy Note 3.

Tap  to pause recording.

Tap  to finish recording.

While recording a voice memo, tap  to insert a bookmark.

Voice Recorder

  • Recording elapsed time
  • Display the list of voice memos.
  • Change the recording mode.
  • Start recording.

Changing the recording mode

Change the recording mode to record voice memo more clearly with predefined settings for various situations.

Tap , and select one of the recording mode.

Playing voice memos

Select a voice memo to play.

  •   : Trim the voice memo.
  •   : Set a portion of the recording for looped play.
  •   : Adjust the playback speed.
  •   : Skip a silent portion in the voice memo.
  •   : Make bookmarks on the voice memo.
  •   : Pause playback.
  •   /  : Skip to the previous or next voice memo.

To send a voice memo to others, tap  → Share via, and then select a sharing method.

Managing voice memos

In the list of voice memos, tap  and select one of the following:

  • Share via: Send voice memos to others.
  • Delete: Delete voice memos.
  • Change category: Change the category of memos.
  • Sort by: Sort memos by date, title, or category.
  • Search: Search for voice memos.
  • Manage categories: Add, delete, or rename categories.
  • Settings: Change the voice recorder settings.
  • End: Close the voice recorder.

Saving files with contextual tags

In the list of voice memos, tap  → Settings, and then tick Contextual filename.

Managing categories

Creating a category

In the list of voice memos, tap   → Manage categories → . Enter a category name, select a colour, and then tap Done.

Changing a category

In the list of voice memos, tap  → Change category, select memos, tap Done, and then select a category to change.

Viewing the Bookmarks list

While playing a voice memo that has bookmark points, tap  → Bookmarks to view the details.

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  1. Alex says

    Where are the category settimgs saved for the voice app. I backed up my phone and reinstalled fresh using kies3 software and lost years worth of categorization.

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  2. Lynn Smith says

    How can I send a “saved” message from my Galaxy Mini 4 to another cell or at least my land line? It is a very important msg. and I especially don’t want to loose it.

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  3. Bebhinn says

    Hi there,

    I am trying to learn a number of songs at the moment which I have saved as separate recordings. Is it possible to play recordings on a loop and to have one recording play automatically after the previous one is finished?

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  4. Anonymous says

    Hello, I own a note 3 and it is amazing. I utilize the recording option a ton. especially as of late due to a sensitive family matter. The info on these recordings can save my sons life. I labeled a majority of the files, however not all. I am attempting now to sort and file all of my recordings. The issue I am running into is that the files I was unable to save have not saved in the phone by the “True date” on which they were recorded. I ASSumed that would be the case and have not dug myself into quite the hole here. Any ideas or suggestion on how I could decipher the recordings by there true dates to better file (over 27 gigs of audio recordings) I will provide an Email for whomever to respond. hopefully will hear from some one soon! thank you in advance and many blessings!

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  6. Suraj says

    I want the recorder to save recordings bydefault by the date on which it is recorded. How can i make such settings

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  7. Darshan Pomal says

    Please help me de-activating it. As i am unable to find from where to do that from google. Can you please give me the steps on how to do it exactly.

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  8. Alzira Fernandes says

    Hi,

    All my voice recordings are not visible on my galaxy note 3 Please help to recover these recordings

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  12. Ed says

    I have a galaxy s4. Did a voice recording and at the end hit the wrong button which said will not save recording. However it’s still showing voice 0:02 and the amount of time of the recording. Can I recover that recording? I also look in the settings and it is saving to device not the card.

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  13. Learne says

    Hello. My note 3 stopped voice recording in conversation mode after 59 minutes. 20gb memory and 7gb on card available. Any way to increase length of recording so I can record 2 hour long meetings to write up minutes afterwards? Thanks

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  14. Nancy Warren says

    I have checked thru My Files along with every other place I can think of… Music, voice memos etc with no luck

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  15. Nancy Warren says

    HELP! All of my VOICE MEMO RECORDINGS on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 DISAPPEARED after upgrading to
    LOLLIPOP 5.0.
    These were extremely important recordings from multiple doctors appointments after my daughter was badly injured in a serious car accident.
    I have tried everything to locate them, without any success.
    I am also having many of the other common problems with my Note 3 since the Lollipop upgrade and want to do a factory reset to try to resolve these troubling issues.
    Before I do that though, I’m hoping for any last minute advice to try to FIND AND RESTORE my missing voice memo recordings. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated!
    Sincerely,
    Nancy Warren

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  16. MANOJ KUMAR MELKANI says

    Hi, Please Help, I recorded a song.. when to all files folder and renamed the recorded song, since then not able to find that song. I sorted it by time still no luck. Please help as that song I sand in karaoke and I need to find that. Thanks

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  17. Nick says

    Hi I have a Samsung Note 2. I trimmed a recording and mistakingly saved it as the original file. How can I get the rest of the file that’s been deleted? Please help. Thx

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  19. Joe says

    So how do I find out what what the tape conversation storage limit is? One more time how long is the length of a conversation that can be recorded before the tape runs out ?

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  21. Fran says

    I have galaxy note 2 and I’m trying to trim my voice memo but i can’t. Could you please help me? I used to scissor button and aligned the line to the point I want to cut but it doesn’t get trimmed.

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  22. Rosa says

    Hi Simon, i have a problem with my note 2. i recorded my meeting for 20 minutes but when i checked at home i didn’t listen any voice, what should i do? thx

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  23. Yiannitsa Cegarra says

    Yes I did, WMP, Quick Time, VLC and directly from iTunes. Not sure what others there are, but if as you said that they could be corrupted then they might not play on any player. Sigh.

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  24. Yiannitsa Cegarra says

    Hi Simon, no I can’t. I opened Samsung link on my note3 while connected via USB and dowloaded the files from my pc to my note3 and it should normaly start playing back when download but it just says that it cannot be played. When I did the original transfer from phone to pc it was via USB; but I did not check they could work on pc before deleting from phone. According to the files size details there should be information in there. I don’t know what else to try.

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  25. Yiann says

    I’ve had a terrible problem. I installed Samsung link in order to transfer my voice recordings, from lectures, in to my pc (W7). Upon finally transfering, via Share > Samsung Link and having to refresh each file a couple of times they ended in my pc. Now the problem is that only 1 of the 4 files can actually playback, the others do not play at all. At some point there were two that played but no sound was coming through. Needless to say that it’s been frustrating. I tried opening the files with iTunes/QuickTime, Windows Media, VLC and other OpenFiles programmes; I even tried converting the files to a different format and nothing worked. Then I tried a recovering program, free trial, but it took all day (10 hrs) and nothing. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance

    Yiann.

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  26. Bernard says

    Hi there, i noticed that the voice recorder on my S4 does not have recording mode as it is on old version whereas my other phone, note 3 is on version 2.

    My question is: does anyone have an idea on how to update this voice recorder on my s4? I’ve been searching and now hoping that someone might have apk for this. Please help. Thanks.

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  27. Sasha says

    Im Hoping you can help me, i recorded a class for a friend from my galaxy and the voice memo is about 2 hours long. I cant seem to find a way to send it to her because the voice memo is too long 🙁 Do you know if theres any way i could send it to her email or something i could do to be able to send large voice memos??? Please help

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  28. Mary Hope says

    how much recording time does the note 3 have? i want to use it for interviews and need all day recording time. can i then send the recording to the audio typist via email?

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  29. lisa says

    Hi there I have the galaxy note 2. The original seeing had my voice recordings saved on the device. I made a recording I want to save on the eternal card. I have changed the setting so that in settings it days save to extetnal sd but I’m not sure if it automatically exports the recording I already made to external from device. Help please.

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  31. cc says

    When o tried to stop the recorder after listening to what I recorded…I can figure out how to do that?? I can only figure out pause then when I tried hitting another icon I know have a letter A showing. How to I get out of that and stop it???

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  32. Brandonian says

    Hello, how can I just cleanly reply a voice message? I’ve tried using the A->B buttons at the start and finish but after a couple of runs, the application stops. I have recorded speeches that I’m trying to memorize and listen to while on the treadmill but I keep having to get off and reset it. Very annoying.

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  35. Asif says

    Hello, the voice recorder in my samsung note 3 is giving error. Every time I press record it is giving me messege” unable to start new recording, other applications already recording.” I rebooted the device and also clean the cashe and closed the apps via clean master but no change. Please help!

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  36. Maurice Perron says

    Got this phone note 3 recently. Just learning how it works. I get stumped when I download a recording . I go to the download file icon but nothing is in it. What do I do?

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  37. shane says

    Hey, I would love to start doing interviews and I’m looking for something specific, maybe it would be offered by another app than the stock one. I love the bookmark option, but instead of using the onscreen button, I want to use the (volume down) button as the bookmark button. Is there a way I can do that? In order for me to not worry about where my finger is every time I want to bookmark.

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  38. Rick Pacenza says

    Can I record a voice ringtone like “it’s Harry calling” on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3? And when using the “easy mode” I lose a lot of stuff.

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  39. Tabitha Veasey says

    I wish that you could share your voice recordings to face book page and or as a text message to friends . Love my phone but don’t like that you cnt share voice recordings.

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  40. Edi says

    I cannot use voice recorder to record a voice anymore. Every time I push the record button, it keeps notifying the other apps has record. What should I do?

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  41. Sunrise Seaport says

    The silence detection for voice memos does not work. Even in sections where my voice is converted to text properly, the ‘skip silence’ button will skip all the way past those sections. It usually skips over most of the memo! The threshold for silence detection should be BELOW that of voice transcription.

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