@Cristina Costa-

Hey, Cristina!

The foot pedal is to be able to start, stop, advance, or rewind the recording while listening to it so the hands never have to leave the keyboard. I found it a little odd to get used to, but trying it without the pedal by only using various keyboard function keys was beyond tedious.

I am about to begin my new round of transcription this evening for my current project http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2010/06/11/request-for-doctoral-faculty-participants-for-a-study/ so will let you know if anything works differently after not having used this for several months.

BTW, I use a free online program Express Scribe http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/ for the audio, and which the foot pedal integrates into.

Jeffrey