Audacity

Reflections on Introduction assignment

Besides reading through the introduction materials and learning how to set up Audacity and Skype, our first assignment was to record a one-minute audio introduction. The purpose of this assignment was not so much what we said, but to practice using the software, exporting it correctly, applying the ID3 tags and naming conventions.


How to transcribe wave-to-text for text blog publication

Steps

1. Convert the audio file from AUP to WAV or MP3 (using Audacity/Lame/WinLame)

2. Transcribe from WAV or MP3 to Text (using WAV-To-TEXT Voice Recognition)


Karen K Dennis-Dell Latitude D505 laptop

Dell Latitude D505 Laptop

 


Introduction by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

0:55 minutes (863.67 KB) Well week one and already behind.  Not a good start needless to say. Anyway, I am using a MacBook Pro and thought GargageBand would be best bet, but decided to try Audacity since that is what  most of my own students will attempt to use.  I am really kooking forward to suggestions for improvement.

Bit rate 64 settings using a Mac

I am feeling little challenged - something that I am sure will be a consistent phenomena for the next 6 weeks. Learning the concept in "windowspeak" and then translating to "macspeak is a bit of a learning curve. I found the method to set a bit rate of 64 for the Mac version of Audacity is established in Audacity preferences> File Format> MP3 Export Setup then the drop down menu> 64. If I have posted this entry twice - it maybe the beginning of that head knocking thing I heard about.

64 Bitrate for mp3: Trouble with LAME? Consider using winLAME instead

winLAME is the external stand-alone version of LAME, which is usually inserted into Audacity in order to enable mp3 file conversion to Academy's requirements. Some people have trouble building LAME into Audacity. No sweat now, use winLAME (freeware): 

winLAME website http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

Just process through the wizard (Next >>) like this in order to get to the Bitrate setting box:


Audio Introduction Skypecall Webcast Chinese TV journalist Broadcaster

1:41 minutes (1.81 MB)

Hello, This is Jiang La, a TV journalist from Wenzhou China. Nice to see you all both new & old fellow interns at the webcast academy ;) I am looking forward to doing some real interview over here very soon. 

 


Audacity Portable - Sound editing and recording to go

Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind (freeware).

http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable

James/Eurominuteman 

 


DOliver-2007-11-03-Telephone-Conversation-2

3:30 minutes (1.6 MB)

This is a recording of another phone conversation—but this time
it's with fellow W.A. intern Pam Shoemaker, not the Skype Lady.
I again used Nicecast and Audio Hijack Pro (both Mac apps),
plus the Mac version of Audacity, and did a lot more editing in
this one.

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