Assignment 3 - Audacity, Challege for your Voice World!

Description of Assignment 3:

    Using Audacity to record and Mix audio

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. And Audacity is also the first software I learn that proceeding audio file. Audacity is really a powerful software for editing audios. With audacity, you can merge two or more audios together; you can cut audio (shorter or longer); you can add special effect to audios; you can change the frequency of audios; you can enlarge each track of audios to edit on every tiny point of the audio file.

For my assignment, Dr. Yuen suggested me to add a short and brief introduction for the content of this audio file. I would like to explain what I want to convey by this audio file. Audacity allows users to add as many audio files as possible at the same time. I intend to create a mixed audio file that using many kinds of sound from real life to represent a person's typical daily life. After collecting all the sound files, I import them to Audacity, and then cut and emerge them to the correct time position.  The topic I chosen for this assignment is to be in accordance with Audacity's permission of importing many sound files at one time.

This sound editing software could be applied to language teaching course, especially for listening teaching and learning. By combining different accent English listening audio files, teachers could use Audacity to let learners feel what standard English pronunciation is, what English dialect is; or even, teachers could ask learners to record their won spoken English, and combine with standard English to do the comparison, helping learners know clearly self's shortcomings.

Here is another thing that need to be paid attention to in using Audacity. The export of audio file as a MP3 format. For a Audacity project, if you want to export it as a MP3 format, you need to find the a .dll file in LAME to complete the exportation. But the version is different from MAC and PC. What you have to do for the exportation of MP3 file, is to go to LAME website, and find the relative .dll, and install it before you exporting the file. However, if you were editing a MP3 format audio file in Audacity, there is no need for you to find .dll in LAME.

[About the artifact of this assignment, I am sorry that I am still working on finding a way to insert an audio in Blogger]