http://www.stanford.edu/group/coursework/stanfordoki/installation3_0/audio_instruction.html

Setting up your Window machine and browser for submitting audio recording
Audio response questions can only be taken using a PC

    1. install Java plug-in 1.3
       Do not bother installing Java plug-in 1.4 or any other version 
because 1.3 is the requirement for the Sopi Test. In future, if we want 
to change version, we would need to update the plugin requirement 
specified in sopi/index.dtl. Please note that installation of plug-in 
1.4 can hang and when it happens, you will have to remove it my hand and 
fiddle with the regedit - this is what happen to me in Feb 2003.

       Below outlines the procedure for installing the Java(TM)Plug-in 
1.3 on a Windows95/98/NT/2000 machine:

          1. First, determine if your Windows machine has the 
Java(TM)Plug-in 1.3 installed already. The simplest way to find out is 
to start doing the assignment with the audio response questions. If you 
can successfully record and play back the recording, your machine is set 
up correctly. You shall skip the following instructions and do the 
assignment.

          2. Look for "Java Plug-in" in the Control Panel. If you don't 
find it, that means no Java plug-in has been installed, jump to step 3 
now. Otherwise, double click the "Java Plug-in" control panel to open it 
and check the plug-in version by clicking at the "About" tab. If the 
version is 1.3, your machine has the correct version installed. Now, 
click at the "Basic" tab and make sure that both "Enable Java Plug-in" 
and "Cache JARs in memory" are checked. Then skip to step 4.

          3. If the machine does not have Java(TM)Plug-in 1.3 installed, 
download the installer at 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.html. Installation 
involves double clicking the installer, agreeing the term of user policy 
and deciding where you want to put the folder - no tricks. If you have 
successfully installed the plug-in, a folder called "JavaSoft" would be 
created. In my case, I have installed it in 
c:\ProgramFiles\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_07\

          4. Locate the file called "java.policy" resides in the folder 
"JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\lib\security".

          5. Open java.policy with Wordpad and add the following line at 
the end of the file just before the "};"

             permission javax.sound.sample.AudioPermission "record";

          6. Quit and restart your browser

    2. install Quick Time for Java, QTJava.zip
       You can download it at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ 
and put it in the lib\ folder of your JavaSoft folder. In my case, I 
install it in c:\ProgramFiles\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_07\lib\ext\. Check that 
your CLASSPATH include path to QTJava.zip.

Daisy Flemming (4/17/03)