Record with Audacity - PC
Record with Audacity - PC
When creating a recording for your department Response Group, you will need a computer microphone. This can be done with a Web Camera or by submitting a ticket to the IT Help Desk to borrow the USB microphone. In addition, the recordings should be completed using Audacity. If this application is not installed on your computer, please access Software Center on your Windows PC and install. Once installed, configure the software by following the steps below.
- Launch the Audacity application and set the recording parameters
- Edit > Preferences
- Quality
- Default Sample Rate set to 44100 Hz
- Default Sample Format set to 16-bit
- Click on OK to save.
- Effect > Amplify to set the volume level, the default decibel level should be sufficient.
- Recording should be set to Mono.
- Click the red circle to begin recording.
- File > Export Audio…
- Save the recording to your Group Site or OneDrive file folders.
- Choose the location to save the audio file and name it.
- Save as type should be WMA (version 2) Files (FFmpeg)
- Bit Rate should be 48kbps
- Click on Save.
- Error with saving as WMA (version 2) Files (FFmpeg)
- Install the ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe file and run.
- This will require administrative credentials.
- Locate the file avformat-55.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\FFmpeg for Audacity\ffmpeg-win-2.2.2\avformat-55.dll