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If you have a microphone on your computer, why not send a voice message instead the next time you want to send an email? Well I usually don’t simply because it’s a pain in the butt and the file is usually too large if I want to attached a proper length voice message to an email. Using a free file compression utility also requries the reciever to unzip the file, too much trouble.

Using JDVoiceMail, you can easily send friends and family full length voice messages via email that are super compressed and therefore very small attachments. The cool thing about the program is that it can reduce the size of a normal audio file by 10 to 16 times.

The program is very easy to use. Click the Rec button and begin recording your voice email message. Click Stop when you are done. Now you can either press Send and JDVoiceMail will open a new email using your default email client or click Save and save it on your computer as a MP3 or WAV file.

You can also choose the codec you want to use for compression by going to Configuration and then choosing Codec Options.

Click on Mail Options under the same menu and you can change the default Subject tex tand Body text when a new email is created.

By default, JDVoiceMail adds a little by-line at the bottom of each email you send, but you can remove it if you like by clicking on the option “Do not send JDVoiceMail notice with email”.

The program works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, and other email clients. The compression codecs can really reduce the size of files, for example:

30 seconds of audio with the DSP True Speech Codec is only 32 KB

30 seconds of audio with the GSM 6.10 is only 50 KB

Since the output of the file is in MP3 or WAV format, the receiving party does not have to have any special software, they can play the audio message via Windows Media Player or any other media player.

Overall, a cool program that makes sending voice messages via email a lot easier and more fun!