Notice the navigation bar at the top of the window which displays the waveform. Once your voice recording is done, the next and most important skill is to learn to navigate the sound file.

Press the record button again to stop the sound recording.

What may be disconcerting at first is that the counter at the top of the window is not running, in fact, you should use the time display at the bottom to measure the length of your recording.

When you are ready to record your student’s speech, click OK, and the recording will start. You can keep the default Sample Rate (44,100 Hz), Channels (Stereo) and Resolution (16 bits).

Click the record button (red circle) to start a new audio recording.

From the Finder, go to your Applications folder and launch oceanaudio (my favourite alternate way to do this is to use Spotlight, the lens in the top right corner of your screen, which I call out by its keyboard shortcut Command + Space).

Installing oceanaudio is fast: double click the downloaded image file (dmg file) and drag the application icon into your Applications folder.

Because of these two deficiencies I can only award three stars but if they were corrected I would be happy to pay to own the software. This is something that I need to do all the time in my work and its absence means that I cannot adopt Ocenaudio as a replacement for Peak. (2) So far as I can see (but without a manual I cannot be sure) there is no way to apply fade-in or fade-out regions to a waveform. A comprehensive manual PLEASE folks, and SOON! It is frustrating that there are things that I know Ocenaudio can do - some of them very simple like moving the cursor to the start or to the end of a waveform - but it took me ages to figure out how to do them. (1) The software is crying out for a decent manual. I can see only two strikes against it, but both are serious: For free software Ocenaudio is an amazingly capable audio editor which can carry out almost all of the basic editing that I would have needed from the late lamented Bias Peak which I have used for many years.