This activity tells you how to record sound&emdash; such as voiceover or narration&emdash; directly into your Computer. Activity 8 tells you how to digitize a prerecorded sound.

1. Connect the equipment. If your Computer has a built-in microphone, you can skip this step. If your Computer does not have a built-in microphone, or if you want higher sound quality, connect a microphone to the sound input port of your Computer.

 

2 Turn on the microphone.

 

3. Start the audio capture software - you can capture sound using SoundMate, in the Multimedia Utilities folder. You can also use HyperStudio to record the sound.

 

4. Set preferences (optional). In your audio-capture software, choose the sound quality, including the sampling rate (measured in kHz) and bit depth (measured in bits).

 

 

1. Click Record and begin speaking into the microphone.

 

2. When you're done, click Stop.

 

3. Click Play to preview the sound you just recorded. If you don't like the sound, re-record it.

 

4. Save the content.

 

5. Choose Save from the Edit menu.

 

6. In the Save dialog box, type a name for the sound you recorded.

 

7. Choose a format for saving the sound and click OK.

 

 

1. Use a sound-editing program such as SoundMate to edit the sound. You can change volume, repeat sounds, fade out, and so on.

 

2. Save the edited content.

 

3. Choose Save As from the File menu. This command lets you save the edited sound under a different name from the one you used earlier.

 

4. In the dialog box that appears, type a filename you'll remember. For example, if you saved your original sound as "Voiceover," save the edited version as "Voiceover-edit."

 

 

The exact steps for bringing in sound depend on which authoring tool you're using.

 

1. Open the authoring tool you're using for your project, if it's not already open.

 

2. Start a new multimedia project or open an existing project.

 

3. Add the edited audio clip to your project - for example, to add an audio clip to a HyperStudio card, first create a button or other object and add the "Play a sound" action to this object. In the Tape Deck dialog box, choose Disk Library. Finally, in the list that appears, choose the sound file you want. 

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