I start by going to eLearning Learning and then I search for something like audio which gets me quickly to a page that's a bunch of great posts and other items all about Audio in eLearning . The keywords on the left are highly related to audio as well, so I'll drill down to pages on Audio Voiceover or Audio Microphone . On the Audio Microphone I just saw a couple of comments on my post Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? that were asking about quality differences between a Blue Snowball mic and SHURE mics.

Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing - I made the point in that earlier post that professional voiceover work can sound synthetic if you don’t get the right voice for your project. While I won’t claim to have been born with a professional voiceover voice (far from it), I have managed to create narrations that sound good despite the lack of golden vocal chords and the budget for an expensive recording setup. In an April post , I made my case for narration in eLearning. As a learner, I love it (when done right).

skip to main | skip to sidebar Monday, June 30, 2008 Audio Recording Tips Ive recently been working on some audio recording and editing for training modules; its a learning curve to get it right so I wanted to keep a record of some points that are important to the process. Keep the sections reasonable in length so that mistakes can easily be re-recorded and the file size kept manageable. If the voice over artist is not yourself and they are not recording directly into Articulate, its a good idea to have the following details for each slide; - Slide

First: You are not a professional voiceover artist – but that’s OK!   You don’t want your eLearning course sounding like those Hollywood voiceover guys anyway.  Please folks, leave the dramatics for the movie trailers, the audio books, and the radio commercials – and the professionals who voice them.  When a colleague approaches you with the teaser “You just GOTTA hear this,” you know you’re in for something truly great.  And of course by truly great, in most cases, I mean truly bad . 

Follow this step-by-step procedure to configure Audacity for your computer and operating system. Configuring Audacity You Try Launch Audacity Check the Preferences. Checking the Audacity preferences is very important step and should be done before you begin editing any audio. You can locate the Preferences Dialog box by going to Edit Preferences, or the shortcut key combination CTRL+P. Set Audio Input & Outputs. Select the Audio I/O tab from the choices across the top of the Preferences Dialog box. Setting Audacity Preferences on Your Computer Before beginning a recording project in Audacity, it's necessary to configure your version of Audacity’s preferences in the Edit Preferences dialog box.

We have a lot of hard-won experience in the management of multi-lingual voiceovers for large, multi-clip, Flash video and animation projects. When you try to take the same movie and apply a voiceover in a different language, however, the new speaker will likely have a different timing and cadence – and possibly overall duration. When the audio structure changes significantly, it is usually necessary to adjust the timing in the underlying These types of projects pose some subtle design issues that are typically not encountered on smaller projects. For example:

Here's what sounds like (pun intended) a pretty decent audio setup for voiceover narration in eLearning courses. Chris created his own little desktop studio sound booth using acoustic tiles glued to square pieces of foam. I'll have to think about getting a rig like Chris'; I bet he gets better sound than my little USB Plantronics headset mic. (photo

If you're putting together your eLearning or online training content and you can't stand the sound of your own voice, or you just need a professional voice of a different accent or language to narrate the audio, look no further than www.voice123.com . of voice producers and voiceover professionals waiting to audition for the part. Voice123 is a really cool site that has hundreds of thousands (!) How it works is that you either search the database for that perfect voice or post your requirements up on the site.

Sure, most of us don’t have the golden “Voice of God” (heaven knows I don’t) and weren’t really born to do voiceover work, and yes, using a professional voiceover specialist for your project will almost certainly result in a higher quality product (though I’ve argued that hiring the wrong voiceover person will give your project a cheesy “over-produced” vibe), but if you’re doing guerilla work in the trenches without a ton of money to throw around, doing your own narration work may be a necessity. Decent , of course,

220:1 Standard e-learning which includes presentation, audio, some video, test questions, and 20% interactivity • Add another 100 hrs for audio if needed (professional audio/voiceover) without audio). ...Tags: The term ‘rapid elearning’ has befuddled me for some time. Beth's reference to "Rabid eLearning" in her recent blog post got me thinking about this topic once again.