Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast

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Do You Have the Audacity to Podcast
Jannita DemianJannita_Demian_at_discovery.comPETE
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Getting Audacity to Your Computer

• First Download Audacity
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net
• Second LAME MP3 Encoder
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?sinstall
  itemlame-mp3

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Additional Resources

• In addition to the great resources provided by
  unitedstreaming these other resources are
  exemplary media sites.

• Sounds Sound Effects
• http//www.findsounds.com/
• http//www.freeplaymusic.com/
• http//www.smartsound.com/
• http//www.naturesongs.com/
• http//soundamerica.com/
• Videos
• http//www.kitzu.org/
• http//www.archive.org/index.php
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Pictures
• www.pics4learning.com

• Speeches and Narrations
• http//www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.ht
  ml
• http//www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/
• http//www.archive.org/index.php
• www.librivox.org
• www.gutenberg.org
• http//creativecommons.org/audio/
• Lets share other sources you use?
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Understanding Your Audacity Screen
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Step 1 Record your voice by clicking the red
record button and speaking into the microphone
Step 2 When you are finished recording press the
yellow stop button
Step 3 Rewind and listen to your recording by
pressing the purple rewind key and green play key
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Step 4 Edit out any gaps or mistakes in the audio
by using the Selection Tool that looks like the
letter I. Highlight the text that you do not
want and hit the delete button on your keyboard.
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Step 5 Time to add additional audio by visiting
www.unitedstreaming.com and searching by audio
clips. After you have downloaded your audio
file, simply drag and drop your audio file in or
click Project Import Audio and search for
your file. Note, some files are in stereo and
will show up as 2 different audio lines
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Step 6 You can shift your audio and sound effects
to the desired location, by using the Time Shift
Tool Button
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Step 7 If you want to save your project and
continue working later, click File Save
Project If you are finished, it is time to
Export As MP3