What might an audio file be good for What is a audio podcast Preparation for producing an audio file

1. Advantage: Audio
podcast factory
1. What is it, an audio podcast?
2. Production steps
Requirements, Preparation,
Recording, Production,
Post-Production, Making Public
3. Free audio editor „Audacity“
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Norbert.Herrmann

2. Audio: What for?
http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=28267#
http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=39510#
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/3361183/
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_feeds.php
http://www.simyo.de/
http://www.naturesongs.com/gavianse.html#LGAVI
Motivating http://podcast.com
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How to use Radiolike
Support for graphics and pictures
Business
Abstract or overview
Support for animations
Educative Background
Lecture Support for written text
Customer relationship
Dialogue or disputation
Welcome words
Language Personal contact
Natural sounds
Artificial sounds
News Documentation Audio Diary
Music
For handicapped persons
Private
Social
Historic moments
http://climate.wordpress.com
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=460 http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=831
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2261357,00.html
...
Audio to listen to!
Audio, what for? podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

3. Germany (http://www.podster.de/page/stats)
5.500 podcast chanels
>450.000 podcast episodes
English/ US (Podcast.com)
> 11.000 podcast chanels
>900.000 podcast episodes (Jan 2008)
Originally from de.Wikipedia.org
(a) A podcaster creates an audio-file and uploads it onto a server in the internet
(b) Simultaneousely the podcaster makes a news-(rss-)feed „point at“ this audio-file.
(c) A listener can subscribe to this rss-feed. By receiving the feed he is informed about
the existence of the latest audio-file.
(d) A listener rummages in podcast portals to find podcasts covering his interests
The listener may listen to the audio-file while accessing the file on the internet or he
can download the file for listening to it via an mp3-player.
What is it, a podcast? podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

4. recorder dictating machine/ voice recorder
computer plus microphone
sound-/ audio-editing software post production, mix and sampling
mp3-tag and albumart shaping the appearance of the
software mp3-file
webspace cost-free versus payed supplier
noises sound databases
Pictures taken from flickr.com or self made
Requirements podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

5. content/ text • target group: complexity of
storyboard / script text, sentence structure
(Advantage: Audio) • which content? Advertising,
promotion, entertainment,
education...
• introduction: incentive
• length, ad-hoc, etc…
sounds and noises do consider copyrights
1. Short and coherent sentences, not too many subordinate clauses
2. Spoken language, not artificial: How to tell a friend - by word of mouth
3. Develop sentences by speaking them out loud
4. Active, not passive voice, righting „verbal“
5. Avoid to have too many information in one sentence
6. Explain one after another
7. Avoid foreign words and technical terms - or explain them properly
8. Repeat names and important terms: Redundancy welcome!
9. Compare visual: „As long as a football field“
10. Filler words allow breathing and thinking break.
(http://blog.podcast.de/artikel/302/schreiben-fuers-hoeren-10-goldene-regeln)
Pictures taken from flickr.com or portal
Preparation podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

6. voice / spoken language • speaking „natural / as
usual“
• mind sibilant sounds
• useage of idioms / dialects
only when intended
•…
jingle / self made sounds ageless
Pictures taken from flickr.com or self made
Recording podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

7. editing, mixing and • cutting, cut and paste, mix
sampling • insert noise and sounds
• cross-fade audio tracks
mp3-export When creating mp3 file, do
consider sound quality of
audio file vs.possible band-
width bottleneck at listener
Pictures taken from flickr.com or self made
Production podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

8. mp3-ID-tags appearance of the audio file
titel, interpreter, year, album,
genre, …
albumart / cover visual benefit, recognition
value/ corporate design
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Post-production podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de

9. 1. upload serveraccess/ webspace
2. newsfeed / blogentry Updated, public accessible
rss-feed with new entry
3. registration on „podcast“ library
podcast-portals
http://www.podcast.com/
http://www.podnova.com/
http://www.podcastalley.com/
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/audio
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
itunes
Pictures taken from portals or self made
Making public podfactory.brennpunkt-ostkreuz.de