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/