iSaidWhat?! ($1.99)
Version – 1.0
REVIEW – “A great gag app that doubles as a useful audio recorder!”
When I read the description and downloaded iSaidWhat?! I was totally 
expecting to get just another gag app. A unique concept for one, but nonetheless another gag app. What I ended up getting was an excellent audio editor with great social networking features built in! The basic idea of the app is that you can record someone talking and then use the 
individual words in their sentences to make a new audio file of them saying something different. If you enjoy pranks and social networking then this is definitely an iPhone app worth taking a look at!
The interface of this app is simple. The first thing you will need to do to get started is record some audio to use. All you have to do to start recording is just touch the red record button at the bottom of the screen. There is even a little mic icon to the left that will bring up a scroll bar to control your device’s mic sensitivity. This will allow you to either amplify the signal to get more sound, or cut it to keep it from distorting.
Once you have your audio recording all you have to do is touch the “Save” button in the upper right corner, enter in a file name, and its time to start editing! The first thing
you’ll want to do is capture the individual words and phrases and add labels to them. You do this by touching the “Scissors” icon, selecting a portion of audio, confirming it with the check mark and giving it a name.
This process can take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes 
depending on how much audio you have recorded. Once you get all of your “snippets” set it’s time to start mixing them into your new creation. All you have to do is touch the “Arrange” button in the upper right corner from within the recording that you want to arrange.
The arrangement will, by default, include one copy of all the audio snippets that you saved from your recording. From this screen you have several options in the menu at the bottom of the screen that will allow you to duplicate snippets, delete them, or you can even import snippets from another recording by touching the “+” button in the upper right corner of the screen.
While the author of this iPhone app only intended for it to be a gimmicky “entertainment” app, I can actually see a lot of potential uses for an app like this. The audio recording feature works a lot better than most “recorder” apps and the interface allows you to quickly and easily edit audio files and send them to your email or computer, as well as Facebook and Twitter! So whether you’re just bored and want to have a little fun, or you are looking for a good audio recording app for your iPhone or iPod Touch, you should definitely check out iSaidWhat in the App Store today!
- David H.
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Developer – Tapparatus
URL: http://tapparatus.com/isaidwhat
DEVELOPERS NOTES
You can even use snippets from multiple recordings. So keep recording your friends, get creative, and make them say “iSaidWhat?!”
Record:
-Real time audio wave lets you visualize what you’re recording.
-Input boost lets you record people from further away.
-Script view lets you write decoy sentences for your friends to read while you record them.
Cut:
-Zoom in/out of the waveform for precise selections.
-Play the selected snippet or the entire recording.
*Tip: Double tap Play/Pause to start from beginning.
*Tip: Press and hold the wave if you don’t want it to scroll while playing.
Arrange:
-Use snippets from multiple recordings.
-Add pauses, rearrange, duplicate, or delete any snippet.
-Fine tune snippet selection without leaving the screen.
*Tip: Double tap Play/Pause to start from beginning
Share:
-Share your creative arrangement or the original recording.
-Email as an attachment in high or low quality.
-Use your local network via ip or bonjour
-Post on your Facebook wall or one of your friend’s.
-Tweet it to the world or as a direct message to a friend.
*Tip: You can copy/paste twitter’s share link to send it some other way.
Requirements/Notes:
-iPhone or iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware or later.
*Note: IPod Touch will require an external microphone to record.
*Note: IPod Touch 1st Gen will require an external dock-based microphone.
*Note: Due to iPhone limitations, you will not be able to record during a phone call.
PS:
There are other fun things you can do, like beatboxing using different snippets.
What people are saying:
daringfireball.net
Clever, usable, well-designed audio waveform editor for the iPhone, premised on the idea of making edited gag recordings of your friends. The waveform trimming and editing feature is just great — I wish the iPhone OS’s built-in “trim” UI worked more like this.
@schlingel
Wow! iSaidWhat?! looks like a very nice iPhone audio editor. It can probably be used to do much than intended.
@leslie_nassar
If this app didn’t have a stupid name, and wasn’t targeted at the iFart demographic, it’d be a fantastic audio tool…. Of course, I bought iSaidWhat despite its name and positioning; fundamentally it’s an outrageously well-designed editor.
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