Hello & Happy New Year. Last year I designed some eLearning projects that I imported voice recordings to. I did this using Audacity. There were issues with the quality and I was looking to find out what other software people use.
NB: the reason I need to import voice recording is that people who are doing them may be SMEs or offsite and don't have access to Storyline.
I absolutely advocate the use of Audacity as your tool of choice for audio recordings, especially for the purposes of training. What I think you're running into is tweaking the audio to make the quality as best as possible.
Check out my suggestion to another person who had a similar question. Your SMEs will be able to record and export high-quality audio (always export in .wav to avoid compression), and the audio you import into Storyline will be great.
I've attached an example of a raw Audacity file and the finished project to give you some better clarity. Check out the layer "Course Complete" to listen to the finished product.
I agree with Cody. Audacity is a pretty capable (and free) tool. I use a USB condensor mic and apply some noise filtering and I'm pretty amazed at how good the final exported file (either wav or mp3) sounds.
It may be a microphone issue rather than a software issue. Audacity should be able to record high quality audio. Since people are offsite I imagine they may be using the built in microphone on their computer. This is usually pretty low quality. You might invest in a Yeti mic (only $109 on Amazon right now). I've had good success with mine:
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Hi, Shawna.
I absolutely advocate the use of Audacity as your tool of choice for audio recordings, especially for the purposes of training. What I think you're running into is tweaking the audio to make the quality as best as possible.
Check out my suggestion to another person who had a similar question. Your SMEs will be able to record and export high-quality audio (always export in .wav to avoid compression), and the audio you import into Storyline will be great.
I've attached an example of a raw Audacity file and the finished project to give you some better clarity. Check out the layer "Course Complete" to listen to the finished product.
I agree with Cody. Audacity is a pretty capable (and free) tool. I use a USB condensor mic and apply some noise filtering and I'm pretty amazed at how good the final exported file (either wav or mp3) sounds.
I use Adobe Audition, just because it already is part of my Creative Cloud subscription.
I've used Audacity (past) and Adobe Audition (currently).
Audacity was great, easy to use and who doesn't love free software? :)
Currently I use Adobe Audition because it's part of my Creative Cloud subscription as well.
Here is a link to an Elearning Heroes Challenge from last year. All about audio. TREASURE TROVE of information. https://community.articulate.com/articles/audio-recording-tips-elearning-designers
It may be a microphone issue rather than a software issue. Audacity should be able to record high quality audio. Since people are offsite I imagine they may be using the built in microphone on their computer. This is usually pretty low quality. You might invest in a Yeti mic (only $109 on Amazon right now). I've had good success with mine:
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Yeti-USB-Microphone/dp/B002VA464S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420843927&sr=8-1&keywords=yeti+microphone
Hi Cody,
Thanks very much. I will let you know how I get on in the future :)
Thanks Eric, I think investment in a new microphone/headset may also aid this.
Ha ha yes free software is good - so I am happy to hear that it doesn't appear to be the software that is the issue.
Thanks Tricia, I will check it out.
Thanks Will, I am going to get a yeti mic and try it out. It's a small price to pay for the lengthy time of trying to improve audio files!
Hello Shawna,
Hopefully you will find something that works for you with all of these great suggestions!
hi Shawna,
You can use Audition software to remove all noises. I used it so good
regards,
Kieu Anh
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