Emilia Vieni W14 : Software

As of now I plan on using Audacity to record my podcast. In high school, I took a media studies course where we used Audacity for one of my assignments, so I already have an idea of how it is used. I have begun to play around with it, making sure I have a working knowledge of how to record my voice, add and remove sound clips, etc. Here are some tips I have gathered as of now:

1. How to record your voice www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/ats/AudacityInstructions

     I will just post the link for this one, I feel like it is a helpful page that gives a good step-by-step process for recordings. I used it myself and it worked, so hopefully anyone who reads this can use it for themselves.

2 .If you are having trouble selecting sound clips from the feed, zoom in more. By doing this, you can see the more exact location of what you are trying to cut, add, or paste into your recording. When you have a lot of clips added, it can get frustrating finding the exact time/location of what you need.

3.Audacity does NOT used wma. files, so if you are using your computer (like me) to record your voice, make sure you have a converter you can use, that way you can record your voice and upload the files onto the program for editing.

When recording my voice, I am happy with the way I sound. I just have to make sure that when I read my script, I speak clearly with no awkward pauses or word fumbles. If I have a lot of those, it will take me MANY tries to finally have that one good podcast. I also do not want to have to paste together a bunch of smaller files from my recordings, I hope to have just a few longer ones to work with.

I think in terms of the editing itself, using Audacity will be a good experience and shouldn't give me too much trouble. What I am most worried about is the file conversions, I still have to test them out, and I hope it will be an easy process since I am sure I will need to convert a LOT of files. Overall, Audacity has many positive reviews online, so I have faith that it will be the right choice for my podcast recording.