Anyway, I guess I've gotten way off the topic of Audacity, but has anyone used it yet? Can you think of any practical uses for it besides the one I named above? (I'm having lots of fun making the artists in my iTunes sing like chipmunks, but this can hardly count as practical).
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Of Audacity and Time Capsules
I attended Bart's session on Audacity the other day, and as soon as I have half a second to play with it, I'm going to use it for a recording my friends and I made five years ago about where we saw ourselves in five years. Being from the South, I'm pretty sure a couple of us said we'd be engaged or married, which is funny because none of us are, nor thinking that it would be such a good idea now! I'm really looking forward to listening. Has anyone else done a sort of "time capsule" or written a letter to yourself? One of my professors my senior year of college always has her classes write letters to themselves, and then she sends them in five years. I still have two years longer to wait for that one. I'm sure it will be equally hilarious.
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Hi Heather,
Great use of video! Your posting got me thinking about how you might use different types of music to influence how people feel when they see the video. Right now it's very calming, but adding "Jaws" music to it would change the feeling of the video completely.
In terms of Audacity- I use it to make experiments and to analyze sounds. For example, I have used it to add words with different stress patterns to experiments looking at how well people can identify how a certain word or groups of words is stressed. With Audacity I can see how much of a difference there is between differently stressed phrases. I bet there are lots of ways people have used it- I'm interested to know too!
Rachel
Heather,
You asked about how people are using Audacity outside of how you
plan to use it. Since one of my classes is not video taped, I used
Audacity to tape this class last week. It was in a large lecture hall.
I recommend sitting in the first row and potentially attaching a microphone to your lap top if you
want to clearly hear the lecture from your lap top. I was not sitting in any of the front rows so
I could not hear very clearly on Audacity, but it probably also relates to the fact my professor does not have a loud voice. During the second part of class, I sat in the front row and taped my TF making an announcement about our break out session, and I could hear my TF much better from the front row, when I re-listened to my Audacity recording. This week I hope to get a front row seat and test it out again. I'll let you know the results (-:
Cheers,
I Z Z Y
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