Recording and Exporting Your Messages with Audacity

Operating System: Windows

Applies to: UB faculty and staff

Last Updated: October 14, 2020

Instructions

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Step 1: Set Options Prior to Recording

1. Select the desired microphone device from the drop-down microphone list.

Note: Using the built-in PC microphone will produce a low playback volume.

2. Select 8000 from the Project Rate Hz drop-down.

3. Select (Mono) Recording from the Set Input Channel drop-down.

Step 2: Exporting Recorded Prompts (Audacity 2.4.2)

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1. Select  File  > Export > Export as WAV.

2. Choose the desired location to save the file.

3. Enter a File name.

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4. For Save as type, select WAV (Microsoft).

5. For Encoding, select U-Law.

6. Click Save.

Step 2: Exporting Recorded Prompts (Older versions of Audacity)

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1. Select File > Export > Export as WAV.

2. Choose the desired location to save the file.

3. Enter a File name.

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4. For Save as type, select Other uncompressed files. You will now see additional Format Options for Header and Encoding.

5. For Header, select WAV (Microsoft).

6. For Encoding, select U-Law.

7. Click Save.

 

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