1. How does it work?
Audacity is a free Start with Recording
program that makes it •Record from a microphone in the computer or attach an external one 10 Great Ways to Use
easy to record, edit, and •Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings. Audacity with Your
mix audio files. •Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after Students
With audacity you can: 1. Podcasts
recording
•Record live audio Importing/Exporting 2. Digital
Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new Story(audio/music)
•Convert tapes and recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.
records into digital 3. PowerPoint
recordings or CDs.
4. Interviews
•Cut, copy, splice or mix
sounds together. 5. Conversations
•Change the speed or 6. Listening Activities
pitch of a recording
7. Foreign language
activities
8. Advertisements
9. Record speeches
Editing 10. Sharing
•Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. compositions/singing
•Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps. with parents
•Very fast editing of large files.
•Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
Effects Resources
Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa. Audacity. (2010). Retrieved from
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/
Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background
noises. Techhappy. “Podcast recording using
Audacity.” Photo. Flickr. 2 July 2007. 2
Other built-in effects include: Robin Danyus Dec. 2010.
Echo, Repeat, Noise Removal, etc. Seton Hall University <http://www.flickr.com/photos/techhappy/
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