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set your 'Uncompressed Export Format' to WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM).Next click the 'Audio I/O' tab, and then: set your 'Default Sample Format' to 16-bit.set your 'Default Sample Rate Format' by clicking the up/down.Preferences (under the 'File' menu selection). If you don't have your manual, this FAQ entry might help you get the required information (another FAQ entry provides some caveats with respect to your sound card and recordingĪudacity, you set the Project Sampling Rate and Sample Format in your
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Your Sound Card's manual to determine the maximum it supports. Sample Rate that your Sound Card can support (up to a Sampling Rate of 48kHz, at 16 Bits Per Sample). VoxForge collects speech audio at the highest Necessary, adjust Audacity's microphone volume to keep your audio The 1.0 to -1.0 range, as this will generate distortion. Go outside the 0.5 to -0.5 range, but avoid having any go beyond Try to keep your recording levels between 0.5 and -0.5,Īveraging around 0.3 to -0.3. The Waveform Display provides you with a guide to your audio Normal voice for a few seconds, and then click Stop (i.e. the red circle button) and begin speaking in your Make sure your microphone volume in Audacity is set to 1.0.Ĭlick Record (i.e. Now you need to test your recording levels. Microphone won't pick-up your breathing), and no more than a half inch Microphone should be a bit to the side and below your mouth (so the You have a headset microphone, this should be easy to do.
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Next you need to adjust your microphone for optimal pickup of your voice. InĪddition, make sure you turn off you speakers while recording - to avoid acoustic feedback in your audio files. Reboot your computer, then Launch Audacity ensure the “Transport menu > Transport Options” have “Overdub” selected (ticked), and "Sound activated recording NOT selected (not ticked), then try a test recording.That the room you are recording in is as quiet as possible. Good, so Audacity isn’t actually “frozen”, it’s just not recording. The “Overdub” option (also in “Transport menu > Transport Options”) should normally be selected (ticked).Ĭlicking the ‘stop’ button causes the red triangles to disappear and the green triangle appear again Look in the “Transport menu > Transport Options” and ensure that “Sound activate recording” is NOT selected (not ticked). So this is the problem that we need to solve. That triangle indicates the recording position (where the “record head” is on the timeline. The red color simply indicates that Audacity is now in “record mode”.Īnd another Red triangle appears over the recording head When clicking the Record button, the green triangle changes to Red Normally you would leave that “un-pinned” as a green triangle, but this is not the cause of your problem.įor now, don’t worry about what “pinned” and “un-pinned” mean, just leave it un-pinned (as a triangle) If I hover over it, the message ‘click to pin’ appears. I am in the middle of recording a book and this is kinda frustrating.īefore clicking any thing there is a nice green triangle on the left of the track. Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated since this is probably my own fault. I’ve searched the help base but no solution found. Have no idea of what these do but they may have something to do with the not recording problem.
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Also there is a strange ’ push pin’ on the timeline now with the option of pinning of unpinning. To the best of my knowledge I have never used this function before and don’t really know what it does. The only change I can see is a red triangle has popped up on the timeline and right clicking on it says “ timeline actions disabled during recording”. But recently it won’t start recording when I click the Record button it just freezes up and refuses to do anything the microphone and speaker panels on the interface are greyed out and it kinda smirks at me. I’m a longtime user of Audacity having recorded over 2500 audiobook tracks and love it.