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E diting speech with Audacity. S kills : simple audio editing, exporting the result, finding free sound effects and music Concepts : audio editing operations, audio effects, audio utility software, Creative Commons.
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Editing speech with Audacity Skills: simple audio editing, exporting the result, finding free sound effects and music Concepts: audio editing operations, audio effects, audio utility software, Creative Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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Editing tools Select Zoom Shift Shift track left/right Make fine adjustments Draw envelope for fades Multi tool Pause/play (selection or entire track)
The rest of this “getting started” manual Ctl-z: undo last edit Ctl-y: redo last undo Save project (all the history): File > Save Save audio (several file formats): File > Export
Removing an “uhm” Select Cut: Ctrl-X then
Zoom in, select, cut and paste Paste: Ctrl-V
Audio utility programs Levelator Gizmo’s
Summary Select Zoom Shift Shift track left/right Make fine adjustments Draw envelope for fades Multi tool Pause/play (selection or entire track)
Self-study questions What is the difference between the Change Speed and Change Tempo effects? How do you switch from zooming in to zooming out? What happens if you zoom in repeatedly? The following are on the Audacity command menu bar. What does each do?
Resources • Audacity audio recorder and editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ • Topic module on configuring Audacity to export .mp3 files: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2011/03/configure-audacity-to-export-mp3-files.html • Audacity audio recorder and editor, portable version: http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable • Audacity "how to" videos: http://www.wonderhowto.com/search/audacity/ • Audacity keyboard shortcuts: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/keyboard_shortcuts.html • Audacity how-to presentation: http://pa.gigavox.com/shows/detail1595.html • Audacity Wiki: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/ • Audacity threaded discussion forum: http://audacityteam.org/forum/ • Audacity tutorial (on Mac, but good for Windows too): http://homepage.mac.com/s_sloan/apsc_2007/audacity_jmc.pdf • Audacity on del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=audacity&type=all • Audacity tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Tutorials • Editing voice tracks like a pro, Jay Rose: http://www.dplay.com/dv/0104edit/ • Sound effects you can use: http://www.findsounds.com/ • Creative Commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ • Creative Commons music: https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos • Creative Commons licensed work: http://search.creativecommons.org/