You will make mistakes in your reading, there is no doubt about that. Don't worry about the mistakes too much as you're recording, because they can be edited out. You can also make adjustments to volume, and remove small amounts of background noise in the editing process.
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While Recording
There are a few things that you can do while you're recording to make the editing process easier later on.
- As soon as you make a mistake clap your hands three times, or say a really loud 'MISTAKE!'. Then repeat the sentence that you goofed up. The point is to create a spike in the sound waves of your editing software. This allows you to more easily find your mistakes in the editing process. [Some people with delicate mics, just click their tongue twice; this also gives nice easily seen spikes]
- Make a test recording to be sure your mic and editing software is set at the correct volume before recording the text. It is possible to alter the volume later, but raising the volume too much will also amplify the background noise.
- Don't stop the recording for anything. If you need to get a drink of water, let it record through that. Need to clear your throat? Keep recording so you end up with one long track. This will prevent inconsistencies in sound or volume. If you stop recording and return later, it will probably be obvious to the listener that you stopped and started again later.
Editing
The process of editing simply involves removing the pieces of your recording that shouldn't be there. Read the instructions for the recording software that you're using. It should tell you how to remove sections of a track, and edit out pieces.
Try to avoid too much processing through filters on your recording. Excessive alterations to the sound can sometimes cause additions like a metallic quality to your recording. Gravity playground mac os. A little background noise is OK. If you're unsure how much is too much, ask a fellow volunteer to lend their ear. See [:ImproveYourRecording:How to Improve Your Recording] for more tips.
If you created a sound spike after your mistakes.
- Main Page: Deleting Errors in Audacity and Alternative Editing Method
It is possible to edit your file without listening to the whole thing to find the mistakes; you can just search for the editing spikes. When you find a spike, listen through to the recording around it, and delete the mistake including the spike. Make sure you find someone to proof-listen your recording if you don't listen through it yourself during editing
Common Keyboard Shortcuts For Audacity
Ctrl S = save Ctrl C = copy Ctrl V = paste Ctrl Z = undo Ctrl N = new Ctrl A = select all (selects the whole file) Ctrl O = open
Ctrl W = close Space bar = play and pause
Tips & Tricks
Cleaning out noises during silences
Between sentences and paragraph, it is better if the silence is total. However, there are often small noises like mouth/lip noises, breathing or blowing into the microphone, chair creaking etc. all the more so as the reader takes the ooportunity of this silence to sit back, relax, breathe, or whatever. The basic command in audacity is Ctrl L: select the silence, then hit Ctrl L to turn it into true silence. You can leave some noise, like the short breath right before the new sentence starts, so that we know this is no machine-generated audio-book.
For removing general background noise, see: Noisecleaning With Pics
Trimming silences to a consistent value
You may want to make sure silences within paragraphs all have roughly the same duration (e.g. all between 0.5s and 1s), and all silences between paragraphs another duration (e.g. all between 1.5s and 3s). Apparently, Audacity does not have an automated command to trim all silences at the same length. The basic solution is to select the amount of silence you want removed, and cut it Ctrl X. Conversely, to increase the duration of a silence, select the amount of silence you need to add, hit Ctrl C (copy), position the cursor where you want to add silence, then hit Ctrl V (paste).
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Making sure the edits are transparent
Sometimes, the 'edges' of an edited portion make a distinctive 'clicking' sound. When you zoom in, you see that there is a discontinuity in the signal (a sharp edge). To remove this, you need to cut (or add) signal so that the transition is smooth. The easiest way to do it is to start and end all your selections (when you want to cut or when you want to paste) at samples where the signal has a zero value, and place the cursor (in case you want to paste) at another sample having a zero value. That way, you ensure that the signal will have a zero value on both sides, thus ensuring continuity. Zero values are not hard to find: there are several hundreds of them each second.
In Audacity, Edit > Find Zero Crossings, or the Z key, moves the edges of the selection slightly until they are close to a zero crossing.
For the perfectionist: the selection should start and end with a zero value and also with a rising signal, and the cursor should also be placed on a zero with a rising signal. With this technique, you can now edit out (or in) not only sentences or words, but individual syllables. Try shortening an 'aaaah', or stretching a 'oh'.
See also: Removing Peaks
Joining several MP3 files into one
If you have several MP3 files that you wish to convert into one, long file (eg if you wish to combine a set of chapter files into a single book file), there are a couple of ways that this can be done.
If you are using Linux or a Mac with OS X, you can use the cat command from a terminal. To join the contents of files 1.mp3, 2.mp3, and 3.mp3 into one file named out.mp3:
Since OS X is built on top of a Unix kernel, the cat command certainly is available from the OS X command line as well.
Alternatively, you could use the MP3Wrap program. It's released under the GPL and is free to download. Versions are available for Linux and Windows.
To overlay tracks, see: Merging Tracks
Splitting an MP3 file into shorter files
- Main page: How To Split With Mp3Splt
If you need to split MP3 files into shorter recordings, the Mp3splt program should work. It's released under the GPL and is free to download. Versions are available for Linux, Mac and Windows, and there are command-line and GUI (graphical user interface - point & click) versions available.
Using a Drawing Tablet
Using a mouse for extended periods of time to edit can be painful and uncomfortable. If you have a drawing tablet, consider using it for editing. Set any function buttons to the keyboard shortcuts for cutting sections of audio, and saving. This saves time, and discomfort.
Example: Kristin uses Audacity and a Wacom drawing tablet. Color switcher (eyadthegreat) mac os. There are two buttons on the pen that she has set to CTRL+X (cut in Audacity), and SPACE (play/pause in Audacity). One of the function buttons on her drawing tablet is set to CTRL+S (save). Deleting a piece of audio is a simple drag of the pen to highlight, and click of a button on the pen. She then hits the second button to resume play, listening for more mistakes.
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Mac or MAC most commonly refers to:
- Mac, Gaelic for 'son', a prefix to family names often appearing in Gaelic names
- Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
- Macintosh, a brand of computers and operating systems made by Apple Inc.
Mac or MAC may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
Fictional entities[edit]
- Mac (Green Wing), a television character
- Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a television character
- Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
- Mac Foster, a character on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Angus 'Mac' MacGyver, from the television series MacGyver
- Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie, from the TV series Veronica Mars
- Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, from the TV series JAG
- Dr. Terrence McAfferty, from Robert Muchamore's CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novel series
- 'Mac' McAnnally, in The Dresden Files series
- Randle McMurphy, in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Mac Taylor, from the TV series CSI: NY
- Mac, a canine character in the television series Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in the television series Ultraman Leo
- MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature), the titular character in the 1988 film Mac and Me
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Mac (film), 1992 directed by and starring John Turturro
- Mac (novel), by John MacLean
- Mac, a Sports Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
- MAC Awards, for achievements in cabaret, comedy, and jazz, administered by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
- Mac the Moose, a public statue in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada; formerly the World's Largest Moose
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Business and economics[edit]
- Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
- Material adverse change, a provision in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing agreements
Organizations[edit]
Businesses[edit]
- MAC Cosmetics, a cosmetics brand, stylized as M•A•C
- Mac Para Technology, a Czech aircraft manufacturer
- Macerich, an American real estate investment trust (NYSE stock symbol MAC)
- Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, a French state arms manufacturer
- Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair, an airline
- Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramics manufacturing company
Government and military agencies[edit]
- Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
- Medicare Administrative Contractor, a private company contracted to administer Medicare benefits in the U.S.
- Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
- Military Affairs Commission in China; see Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)
- Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
- Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis
Non-profit organizations[edit]
- mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
Political groups[edit]
- Mouvement d'Action Civique, a defunct Belgian far right group
- Mouvement Autonome Casamançais (Casamancian Autonomous Movement), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
- Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for several bombing incidents
- Muslims Against Crusades, a UK-based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010
Schools[edit]
- Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
- McMaster University, in Canada
- Michigan Agricultural College, former name of Michigan State University
Sports organizations[edit]
Trimming silences to a consistent value
You may want to make sure silences within paragraphs all have roughly the same duration (e.g. all between 0.5s and 1s), and all silences between paragraphs another duration (e.g. all between 1.5s and 3s). Apparently, Audacity does not have an automated command to trim all silences at the same length. The basic solution is to select the amount of silence you want removed, and cut it Ctrl X. Conversely, to increase the duration of a silence, select the amount of silence you need to add, hit Ctrl C (copy), position the cursor where you want to add silence, then hit Ctrl V (paste).
Anyone has something quicker ?
Making sure the edits are transparent
Sometimes, the 'edges' of an edited portion make a distinctive 'clicking' sound. When you zoom in, you see that there is a discontinuity in the signal (a sharp edge). To remove this, you need to cut (or add) signal so that the transition is smooth. The easiest way to do it is to start and end all your selections (when you want to cut or when you want to paste) at samples where the signal has a zero value, and place the cursor (in case you want to paste) at another sample having a zero value. That way, you ensure that the signal will have a zero value on both sides, thus ensuring continuity. Zero values are not hard to find: there are several hundreds of them each second.
In Audacity, Edit > Find Zero Crossings, or the Z key, moves the edges of the selection slightly until they are close to a zero crossing.
For the perfectionist: the selection should start and end with a zero value and also with a rising signal, and the cursor should also be placed on a zero with a rising signal. With this technique, you can now edit out (or in) not only sentences or words, but individual syllables. Try shortening an 'aaaah', or stretching a 'oh'.
See also: Removing Peaks
Joining several MP3 files into one
If you have several MP3 files that you wish to convert into one, long file (eg if you wish to combine a set of chapter files into a single book file), there are a couple of ways that this can be done.
If you are using Linux or a Mac with OS X, you can use the cat command from a terminal. To join the contents of files 1.mp3, 2.mp3, and 3.mp3 into one file named out.mp3:
Since OS X is built on top of a Unix kernel, the cat command certainly is available from the OS X command line as well.
Alternatively, you could use the MP3Wrap program. It's released under the GPL and is free to download. Versions are available for Linux and Windows.
To overlay tracks, see: Merging Tracks
Splitting an MP3 file into shorter files
- Main page: How To Split With Mp3Splt
If you need to split MP3 files into shorter recordings, the Mp3splt program should work. It's released under the GPL and is free to download. Versions are available for Linux, Mac and Windows, and there are command-line and GUI (graphical user interface - point & click) versions available.
Using a Drawing Tablet
Using a mouse for extended periods of time to edit can be painful and uncomfortable. If you have a drawing tablet, consider using it for editing. Set any function buttons to the keyboard shortcuts for cutting sections of audio, and saving. This saves time, and discomfort.
Example: Kristin uses Audacity and a Wacom drawing tablet. Color switcher (eyadthegreat) mac os. There are two buttons on the pen that she has set to CTRL+X (cut in Audacity), and SPACE (play/pause in Audacity). One of the function buttons on her drawing tablet is set to CTRL+S (save). Deleting a piece of audio is a simple drag of the pen to highlight, and click of a button on the pen. She then hits the second button to resume play, listening for more mistakes.
Look up Mac, mac, MAC, maç, or mac- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Mac or MAC most commonly refers to:
- Mac, Gaelic for 'son', a prefix to family names often appearing in Gaelic names
- Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
- Macintosh, a brand of computers and operating systems made by Apple Inc.
Mac or MAC may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
Fictional entities[edit]
- Mac (Green Wing), a television character
- Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a television character
- Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
- Mac Foster, a character on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Angus 'Mac' MacGyver, from the television series MacGyver
- Cindy 'Mac' Mackenzie, from the TV series Veronica Mars
- Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, from the TV series JAG
- Dr. Terrence McAfferty, from Robert Muchamore's CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novel series
- 'Mac' McAnnally, in The Dresden Files series
- Randle McMurphy, in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Mac Taylor, from the TV series CSI: NY
- Mac, a canine character in the television series Clifford the Big Red Dog
- Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in the television series Ultraman Leo
- MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature), the titular character in the 1988 film Mac and Me
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Mac (film), 1992 directed by and starring John Turturro
- Mac (novel), by John MacLean
- Mac, a Sports Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
- MAC Awards, for achievements in cabaret, comedy, and jazz, administered by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
- Mac the Moose, a public statue in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada; formerly the World's Largest Moose
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Business and economics[edit]
- Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
- Material adverse change, a provision in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing agreements
Organizations[edit]
Businesses[edit]
- MAC Cosmetics, a cosmetics brand, stylized as M•A•C
- Mac Para Technology, a Czech aircraft manufacturer
- Macerich, an American real estate investment trust (NYSE stock symbol MAC)
- Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, a French state arms manufacturer
- Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair, an airline
- Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramics manufacturing company
Government and military agencies[edit]
- Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
- Medicare Administrative Contractor, a private company contracted to administer Medicare benefits in the U.S.
- Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
- Military Affairs Commission in China; see Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)
- Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
- Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis
Non-profit organizations[edit]
- mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
Political groups[edit]
- Mouvement d'Action Civique, a defunct Belgian far right group
- Mouvement Autonome Casamançais (Casamancian Autonomous Movement), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
- Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for several bombing incidents
- Muslims Against Crusades, a UK-based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010
Schools[edit]
- Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
- McMaster University, in Canada
- Michigan Agricultural College, former name of Michigan State University
Sports organizations[edit]
Clubs and teams[edit]
- Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
- Marília Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
- Missouri Athletic Club, a traditional gentlemen's and athletic club in downtown St. Louis, Missouri
- Multnomah Athletic Club, a private athletic club in Oregon
Conferences[edit]
- Macomb Area Conference, a Michigan high school football conference
- Mayflower Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts
- Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision) sports conference
- Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, a Washington, D.C., area high school athletic league
- Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference, an NCAA rifle-only conference
- Midwest Athletic Conference, an Ohio high school athletic conference in west-central Ohio
- Middle Atlantic Conferences, an umbrella organization for three NCAA Division III sports conferences
- Middle Atlantic Conference, one of the three conferences of the above, used to organize competition in some sports
- Mississippi Athletic Conference, a high school sports conference in the Iowa Quad Cities
- Mountain Athletic Conference (NCHSAA), a North Carolina high school athletic conference
- Mountain Athletic Conference (PIAA), a Pennsylvania high school athletic conference
People[edit]
Names[edit]
- Mac, Gaelic for 'son', a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
- Mạc (surname), Anglicized surname or Mạc (Vietnamese surname)
- Mạc dynasty, 16th-century rulers in Vietnam
People with the nickname or professional name[edit]
- Mac (rapper), American rapper formerly signed to No Limit Records
- Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
- Mac Brandt, actor
- Mac Davis, singer and songwriter
- Mac Dre, American rapper
- Mac Jones, American football quarterback
- Mac King, American comedy magician
- Mac Mall, American rapper
- Mac Miller, American rapper
- Derek McCulloch, British radio broadcaster known as 'Uncle Mac'
- Ian McCulloch (singer), commonly referred to as 'Mac the Mouth' or just 'Mac'
- Stanley McMurtry, British cartoonist with the pen name 'Mac'
Places[edit]
Inhabited places[edit]
- Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, nicknamed 'Fort Mac'
- Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, ISO 3166 code MAC
- Macedonia (disambiguation), various places
Museums and arts centers[edit]
- mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
- Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
- Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), an archaeology museum in Catalonia, Spain
- Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói), a museum in Niterói, Brazil
Other facilities[edit]
- Macomb (Amtrak station), Illinois, United States, Amtrak station code MAC
- UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, a recreational facility in Marina del Rey, California
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Science and technology[edit]
Biology and medicine[edit]
- MAC (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen of Mitoxantrone and Ara-C
- Maximum allowable concentration, a concept related to threshold limit value (TLV)
- Membrane attack complex, an immune system function using complement
- Microbiota-accessible carbohydrates, a category of carbohydrates consumed by gut microbes
- Minimum alveolar concentration, a measure used to compare the strengths of anesthetic vapors
- Mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel, the cytochrome c release pore of apoptotic mitochondria
- Monitored anesthesia care, a form of anesthesia with partial awareness
- Mycobacterium avium complex, a group of environmental pathogens
Computing and telecommunication[edit]
- MAC address, or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), the OSI layer 2 address of network interfaces
- .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation software
- Macintosh, a brand of computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
- macOS, formerly Mac OS X and OS X, Apple's current operating system for the Macintosh
- Classic Mac OS, the original operating system for Apple's Macintosh
- .Mac, now iCloud, a subscription service by Apple
- MAC times, metadata which record times of events associated with a computer file
- Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
- Maximum activate count, a parameter associated with the LPDDR4 memory's TRR feature that mitigates the row hammer effect
- Medium access control (often 'Media Access Control'), a sublayer of the Data Link layer
- Message authentication code, used to authenticate a message in cryptography
- Migration Authorisation Code, a unique code used when switching between DSL Internet service providers in the UK
- Multiplexed Analogue Components, a proposed satellite television transmission standard
- Multiply–accumulate operation, or multiplier–accumulator, in digital signal processing
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Transportation[edit]
- Mean aerodynamic chord, a measure of the geometry of an airfoil
- Merchant aircraft carrier, used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands
- Mid-air collision, a type of aircraft accident
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Weapons[edit]
- Mac-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially the M10), a compact, blowback-operated machine pistol
- Mac-11, a sub-compact version of the Model 10 machine pistol
Other uses in science and technology[edit]
- Mission assurance, an engineering process
- MAC (Money Access Card), an ATM (automated teller machine) card
Other uses[edit]
- MAC Award, or Hermann Trophy, the highest award in American college soccer
- Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
- Modern Army Combatives, a hand-to-hand combat training regimen
- Material adequacy condition, a concept in the philosophies of logic and language
See also[edit]
- Macaroni and cheese, or 'mac and cheese' in American and Canadian English