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18 Post author: Eneasz 29 March 2011 06:05AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 30 March 2011 05:19:52AM 3 points [-]

Agree on the usefulness of having stuff in audio format.

Your voice is easy on the ears, so that's good, and of course you'll learn to enunciate at all times as you pick up more practice. Try a greater use of emphasis on key words or contrasting words - that is, speak in italics. (I write with italics way too much partly, I think, because I have learned to speak with italics when recording for podcasts.)

What's the background noise? You might be able to remove some of that even with something simple like Audacity. Ask if you need details.

Doing multiple for voices for multiple characters is for pros. I've never been able to do it competently, so I have no advice on that.

Comment author: Eneasz 30 March 2011 03:01:37PM 0 points [-]

Audacity is what I (try to) use. Details would be helpful! I meant to play around with it more last night but was side-tracked. What sort of background noise were you picking up? The intermittent stuff is probably my inhaling.

Comment author: lukeprog 30 March 2011 07:18:05PM 5 points [-]

During each recording, I record 30 seconds of silence. Then when editing, I select those silent 30 seconds and choose Effects -> Noise Removal and choose Get Noise Profile. Then, back on the main editing window, Select the entire track (Ctrl + A) and choose Effects -> Noise Removal -> OK.

Works pretty well.