J. Black
Fall 2006

Quick Steps For Kids and Teachers:

How to Make your Digital Recording Using Audacity:

Ø      Double click Audacity Shortcut Icon  on the computer desktop.

Ø      When the program loads you will see a control panel that looks like this:

                       Play   Record   Pause    Stop

Ø      When you are ready to record your script, click the red button.

Ø      When you are finished, click the yellow square to stop recording

Ø      Click the green arrow to play and listen to your recording

Ø      Save your project (get help saving if you need it). Give it a name you will remember.

You can include the sound in PowerPoint

• Click Insert on the file menu

• Click Movies and Sounds

• Click Sound from File

If the sound file is small, then the sound can be stored within the PowerPoint slides. However, when the sound file is large, only a link to the sound file is stored, and not the sound file itself. Consequently this may cause problems transferring the talking book between computers. To fix this:

• Click on Tools, then Options

• Click the General tab

• Click in the Link sounds box with files greater than and type in 50000

This will make sure that any sound files that are smaller than 50,000 Kb (AKA 5Mb) will be included in each of the slides when you save your book. This way the sounds will play correctly on a different computer.