We are a small and friendly software company striving to make audio as accessible and easy to use as possible, helping you to get the most out of your presentations, lectures, meetings and interviews. We may even change how you take notes completely.

Sonocent's software solves the 4 problems associated with audio

Navigating through audio hasn’t improved much since the days of magnetic tapes. Heck, vinyl is easier to navigate through than digital audio today.

We bring listening to audio into the 21st century by displaying each spoken phrase visually as a block. It’s like punctuation for audio!

 

When you navigate you can just listen to the first part of each phrase to work out where you are in your audio.

So, your recording is full of really useful information – great! How do you now share that information, or label it so you can find it again later?

 

Sonocent’s software allows you to break your recording into sections (which are like paragraphs) and write text next to each bit to label that part of the recording.

Then add images, presentation slides or PDF documents. You can also use colour to label individual phrases, or entire sections.

Some of us get accused of not listening to people talking directly at us. How are we supposed to concentrate on listening to a long recording!?  

 

 

 

Sonocent’s software is visual and engaging, turning a passive process into an interactive one. You control your audio: delete unnecessary parts, move things around, organise, mark. It’s fun!

Audio files often have funny names. And even when they don’t, how do you know what’s inside?

 

 

 

Sonocent’s software helps you organize your recording, by tagging it with extra details such as title, topic and speaker. You can also search for keywords inside the text or slides.

Our Products

Audio Notetaker (Windows and Mac)

This is our fully-featured audio tool. Use it to record meetings, lectures, interviews, training sessions and more. Import presentations slides or PDF documents and annotate your recording to create audio-based notes.

 

 

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Rich Audio Viewer (Windows only)

The Rich Audio Viewer enables anyone to view, but not edit, files created in Audio Notetaker or Audio Tutor (.ran files). The availability of our free viewer means you can now easily share files with people who don’t already own Sonocent software.

 

 

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Audio Tutor (Windows only)

So many resources are text-based when students in the classroom mostly learn through oral explanations. Audio Tutor is for teaching speaking and listening skills and has been optimized for schools, empowering teachers to use spoken language in their resources. The tool also helps students analyze spoken language, both native and foreign.

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What people are saying

I used to come in the bottom of the class, but since using Audio Notetaker I have come in the top 3%. It is the most important piece of assistive technology software I have.
Andrew Campbell Pyschology student
This software is powerful, but brimming with simplicity. I really couldn’t imagine using digital audio recordings without it now.
D Smith Law student, Warwick
We have practised the transcript routine – and in the past have experienced the sheer physical strain of transcribing from audio tape, the constant fiddling with the re-wind button and guessing how far to go (never accurate!). Even the professional foot-pedal systems are awkward to manage. Audio tutor is a world away from this hit-and-miss effort. You know exactly where you are and you can adjust the controls to make transcribing as simple as it can be.
Trevor Millum, Tom Rank and Chris Warren NATE ICT committee
[Audio Tutor is] a fantastic tool for teaching listening and developing learner autonomy. Its ease of use makes it an ideal piece of software for students, teachers, course-leaders and textbook writers. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Dr Richard Cauldwell Owner, SpeechInAction

 

I am constantly reviewing presentations by both current and prospective teachers. I often have to share my notes with my supervisor, which until now involved a lot of tedious cutting and pasting and synchronizing with Powerpoint. Audio Notetaker is the perfect solution; I wish I had this a while ago!
Dov P Principal, K-8, USA
This software was painlessly and quickly inserted into my trial practice with very little learning curve. It is slick, smooth and does not hang up, providing instant playback when required. Highly recommended.
Gerry McGeachy Lawyer, Canada
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Audio Notetaker is a fabulous way to make a whole range of classroom activities, (dictations, interviews, discussions, news recordings etc), come to life in an effective and much more user friendly way.  It is immediately motivating, engaging and student centred.  Our responsibility for leading learners towards autonomy now includes training them to use this software.
Cheryl Greenlay Director of Studies, NSL
Once familiar with the software, it’s hard to envisage going back to the old ad-hoc methods. Every English teacher, at the very least, should be equipped with this software, if only for assessment. Once they realise what it can really do, then a whole new dimension of teaching will emerge. It is a must-have tool.
Carol Weale Dane Court Grammar School, Kent
 
This package is truly amazing; I can do almost everything I want with it! It’s fun and it’s easy to use… It’s like you’re in class over and over again, but this time just getting the main points. It really does benefit your studies and I think my grades would have been better if I had had it earlier.
Ghislain Mumbari International Student from Cameroon
The product is clean, easy to use and for those like me who are not particularly computer literate, is very easy to navigate and get used to.
Lindz Brewer Student, Open University
 
For me, Audio Notetaker is the hub of all the other assistive technologies. With it, I feel equal to the other students. In fact, I got so good at note taking that other students started asking to see my notes!
Dominic Hatje Law Student, Kings College London
One of the best bits of software I’ve seen for a long time. I think it is absolutely brilliant.
Assistitve Technology Adviser University of Edinburgh, Scotland
 
Audio notetaker is ‘must have’ software for students, especially for those whose first language is not English. I have used it for over six months and found it incredibly useful and beneficial. I am confident that you won’t regret it once you start using it!
Yangyang Shao International student, China
As a dyslexic student, I have found Audio Notetaker to be an invaluable resource for reviewing my lectures and supervisor meetings.
Michelle Nichols Royal Halloway University of London