Useful+Audio+Tools

[|Palomar] What are the Wimba Voice Tools? They provide the ability to add your voice, and your students' voices, to your Blackboard courses. Tahais

Audacity, which is free, is a great program for creating and editing audio. A good reasonably priced program for creating and editing audio that can sync up with PowerPoint slides or Flash animations is Adobe Captivate. - Pennie Walters

Audacity and TechSmith's Camtasia Studio - Audacity will be used for the podcasts. Camtasia will be likely be used for narrated slides where the final product can be produced in MP3 and MP4 formats. Additionally any narrated movie/slides will be produced in a swf format. - Kelly Hyduk

I'm learning how to use Adobe's Soundbooth, which isn't free but is only $80 with an educational discount. It's more full-featured than Audacity (which I have been using until now) but also harder to learn. I'm also going to be using the text-to-speech capabilities in Adobe Captivate, which I have at work but I would love to hear about other text-to-speech tools that anyone else can recommend. - Judy Unrein

Audacity is my #1 choice for creating/editing audio. It's very easy to use and has some great features. One of the features I like most is the noise removal. - Patty

PodOMatic is also a good tool to create podcasts. It's free and also easy to use. - Patty

Protocols for Closed Captioning - I found an interesting PDF when doing some closed captioning this week. I had never done CC transcription for unscripted audio before, and I ran into a lot of questions, like... should we put in every Uh, Um, and partial thought, or just distill it what the person meant to say? This situation is very related to CC-ing live events, and it turns out there are protocols for what to do... at least in Canada!