1. TUTORIAL FOR USING AUDACITY DESIGNED BY ND SINH/ND CHUONG Name of the tool: Audacity URL Link: Audacity Download (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/)http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

2. INTRODUCTION AUDACITY IS A FREE, EASY-TO-USE AND MULTILINGUAL AUDIO EDITOR AND RECORDER FOR WINDOWS, MAC OS X, GNU/LINUX AND OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS MULTILINGUAL TEACHERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE COMPUTER WITH BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: OFFICE- SOFTWARE, MEDIA PLAYERS

3. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THE TOOL? RECORD FROM MICROPHONE, LINE INPUT, USB/FIREWIRE DEVICES AND OTHERS. DEVICE TOOLBAR MANAGES MULTIPLE INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES. TIMER RECORD AND SOUND ACTIVATED RECORDING FEATURES. DUB OVER EXISTING TRACKS TO CREATE MULTI- TRACK RECORDINGS.MULTI- TRACK RECORDINGS RECORD AT HIGH SAMPLE RATES IN EXCESS OF 192,000 HZ (SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATE HARDWARE). RECORD MULTIPLE CHANNELS AT ONCE (SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATE HARDWARE).MULTIPLE CHANNELS

4. CONTINUED CONVERT TAPES AND RECORDS INTO DIGITAL RECORDINGS OR CDS. CUT, COPY, SPLICE OR MIX SOUNDS TOGETHER. CHANGE THE SPEED OR PITCH OF A RECORDING. IMPORT AND EXPORT FILES.

5. 3. GETTING STARTED/ STEP BY STEP 1. INSTALL AUDACITY ON YOUR HARD DRIVE OR MEMORY STICK 2. THE INTERFACE LOOKS LIKE THIS

6. 3.1. APPLICATION 1: RECORDING EXTERNAL SOUND (YOUR VOICE, CDS PLAYED BY OTHER DEVICES, ETC..) - STEP 1: PLUG A MICROPHONE INTO YOUR PC -STEP 2: CLICK ON THE RECORDING BUTTON.

7. + IN THE RECORDED FILE, CHOOSE TO EITHER SILENCE A PART OF SOUND OR ERASE ANY PARTS OF SOUND BY USING SILENCE OR TRIM BUTTONS

8. T O CHANGE SPEED OF THE SOUND C LICK ON EFFECT  CHANGE TEMPO (“ CHANGE SPEED ” ALSO CHANGES THE PITCH )

9. S TEP 3: S AVING YOUR RECORDING C LICK ON FILE  E XPORT

10. YOUR RECORDED FILE CAN BE SAVED INTO THE DIFFERENT AUDIO TYPES LIKE THE ILLUSTRATION BELOW : ( RECOMMENDED FILE: MP3)

11. A PPLICATION 2: M ODIFYING AUDIO FILES USING A UDACITY : - S TEP 1: C LICK ON FILE → IMPORT → AUDIO

12. S TEP 2: O PEN THE FILE  FILE  IMPORT  AUDIO + T HE WINDOW THEN MAY LOOK LIKE THIS

13. T O CHANGE TEMPO : C LICK ON EFFECT  CHANGE TEMPO

14. S TEP 3: S AVING YOUR PROJECT : C LICK ON FILE  E XPORT

15. YOUR MODIFIED FILE CAN BE SAVED INTO THE DIFFERENT AUDIO TYPES LIKE THE ILLUSTRATION BELOW : ( RECOMMENDED FILE: MP3)