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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Environment – Choose the best possible environment for recording the audio and be sure to do a sample test ahead of time. Any words that are difficult to pronounce (e.g. sixth , anemone , colonel , rural , Worcestershire ) should be practiced or changed. We also recommend to compress the file to an.mp3 format.

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30+ Ideas for eLearning Portfolio Samples

Experiencing eLearning

What if you can’t use any samples of your existing work due to confidentiality or security requirements? For portfolio samples, you don’t generally need to create a full-blown, 60 minute course. If you want a job creating soft skills training, create customer service samples. Edit out noise in Audacity.

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30+ Ideas for eLearning Portfolio Samples

Experiencing eLearning

What if you can’t use any samples of your existing work due to confidentiality or security requirements? Use Short Samples. For portfolio samples, you don’t generally need to create a full-blown, 60 minute course. If you want a job creating soft skills training, create customer service samples. More Resources.

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Training 2015 Conference: eLearning Maker Faire Resources

Kapp Notes

Next: Please download Audacity and create a short introductory script as an audio file. Below is a sample, say what you’d like…about 30 seconds or so. Download Audacity here. Sample script: Hello, my name is and I’d like to welcome you to this learning session. GoAnimate (Download Free 14 day trial).

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Daily Bookmarks 07/25/2008

Experiencing eLearning

32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling. tags: captivate , e-learning , audio , audacity. The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. So basically from what I can see there is no point in ever going below 32kbps as you're gaining filesize and losing quality.

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eLearning: When Should You Record Your Voiceover Audio?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  You can listen to samples of my audio in videos I've posted to the IconLogic YouTube channel. .    I find that my "off-the-cuff" video demos sound more natural when I record my voice during the recording process. more informal.   The audio on my YouTube videos isn't perfect.

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How to Record Voice Overs for eLearning (Part 1)

eLearning Brothers

There are a lot of open source options out there as well, including Audacity, Reaper, and NCH Software. One thing to look for when getting an audio converter is the quality at which it captures sound (the sample rate and bit depth capability). The lowest you would want to record at is 44.1khz/16bit (CD quality).

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