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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. Editing speech with Audacity

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Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts Applications Technology Implications Internet skills Application development Content creation User skills

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Shift track left/right Zoom Select Make fine adjustments Draw envelope for fades Multi tool Editing tools Shift Pause/play (selection or entire track)

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Ctl-z: undo last edit Ctl-y: redo last undo Save project (all the history): File > Save Save audio (several file formats): File > Export The rest of this getting started manual

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Select Cut: Ctrl-X Removing an uhm then

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Zoom in, select, cut and paste Paste: Ctrl-V

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Audio effects

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The amplify effect

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Multiple tracks

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Save projects; export files

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Audio utility programs Levelator Gizmos

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http://www.findsounds.com/

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Shift track left/right Zoom Select Make fine adjustments Draw envelope for fades Multi tool Summary Shift Pause/play (selection or entire track)

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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?

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Resources Audacity audio recorder and editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/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 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=Tutorialshttp://manual.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Tutorials Editing voice tracks like a pro, Jay Rose: http://www.dplay.com/dv/0104edit/http://www.dplay.com/dv/0104edit/ Sound effects you can use: http://www.findsounds.com/http://www.findsounds.com/ Creative Commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/choose/https://creativecommons.org/choose/ Creative Commons music: https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideoshttps://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos Creative Commons licensed work: http://search.creativecommons.org/http://search.creativecommons.org/