Voki's and Audacity

Audacity is a simple tool which can be used to record your own voice. But where do you go from there? By simply exporting your file you can upload it as a podcast, upload to a voki or simply embed the file onto your website. There are limitations though, because audacity lets you record a large voice file you can run into some trouble when combining this in a voki. The "talk time" of a voki is limited as I soon found out!

I started off recording myself talking about De Bono's thinking caps theory then tried to upload this to my voki. This was unsuccessful as my audio file was too long. I then recorded myself speaking briefly about Bloom's taxonomy. I uploaded this to my voki and succeeded (see voki above)!

Audacity is a great program not just for recording yourself but also for editing your audio. You may notice while listening to my voki above that I had a little trouble pronouncing the word "synthesis". Using audacity I have the ability to cut that audio out and replace it with the proper pronunciation.

This would be a usefull tool for students creating presentations or even movies in subjects such as Film and TV. It's easy to record yourself, export the file then add to programs such as movie maker or final cut pro. The student then has the option to use their own voice over's in movies without having to record themselves speaking on camera.

Its also a great way for teachers to add podcast's recorded using audacity by exporting the sound file and then uploading it to programs such as Podmatic.