Digital+Audio

 Home] [Word] [Publisher] [Excel] Power Point] Images] [Audio] Video] ​ ​ Audacity Digital Audio​ Audacity is a free and easy to use audio editor. This program can be used in numerous languages and can be manipulated to fit the personal needs of users. Audacity is free and was created by a group of volunteers and has been distributed under public license. Audacity can be used on Windows and MAC.

Some of Audacity’s features include: 1. Recording and playing sounds 2. Editing via Copy, Paste, Cut and Undo 3. Multi-track mixing 4. A large array of digital effects and plug-ins. 5. Amplitude envelope editing 6. Noise removal 7. The ability to change the audio's pitch without changing the speed. 8. Converting cassette tapes or records into digital tracks by automatically splitting one track into multiple tracks based on silences in the track and the export multiple options. 9. The ability to change the audio's pitch without changing the speed. 10. The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed while maintaining pitch.

In the classroom setting, Audacity can be used in multiple ways to enhance education. One of the many ways that I would use Audacity is to provide legally blind students with a medium to receive the lessons that all other students receive. For instance, as a Language Arts teacher, reading novels is an integral part is the curriculum and all students need to understand the concepts in novels to be successful. As a result, reading needs to take place. While many audio books are available from the publisher, they can become quite pricy and many novels don‘t have an audio book version. Hence, I can utilize Audacity to effectively communicate literature and ideas to students who are blind or legally blind.

Unedited Version

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Edited Version

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Reference: Audicity Download: Retrieved on April 29, 2010. []