Do You Use Audacity?

Have you found Audacity yet? It's the free audio editing software that lets you do so many things. Teachers use it to record podcasts for their students, students can use it at home to record their homework and email it to the teacher for an alternative to writing, and speech-language pathologists can use it for articulation, voice, and language feedback. I use it to add audio to my video clips because it is easy to change your voice pitch and speed - so I can be an entire cast of characters from my voice! Do you work with students who are nonverbal and use digitized speech devices? Instead of a teacher's voice coming out of the Step-By-Step, it is easy to use Audacity to change the pitch of the recorded voice to sound like a child. Then, just play the sound clip on the computer and hold down the "record" button of the device to record the message from the computer. Be careful - too much pitch change it you sound like Mickey Mouse! You can also clip portions of music to use for videos, websites, PowerPoint slide shows, and so much more.

Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/