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Title of script: Dub using Audacity
Author: Mousumi Medhi
Keywords: video tutorial, audacity, dubbing, recording, audio track, audio, stereo to mono, merge audio segments
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| Slide Number 1
Title Slide |
Hello Everyone. Welcome to this tutorial on How to Dub using Audacity. |
| Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to dub or record an audio using Audacity. |
| Slide Number 3
System Requirement |
To record this tutorial I am using
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| Slide Number 4
Installation |
I have already installed Audacity 2.1.2 on my Linux system.
For more details, refer to the Translation and Dubbing Series on our website http://spoken-tutorial.org/ |
| Narration only | Now let us open Audacity to dub or record a script. |
| Click on Start Menu and type Audacity
Click on Audacity |
If you are a Windows user, click on Start Menu and type Audacity in the search box.
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| Point out the empty project on your screen | This will open an empty Audacity project on your screen. |
| Click on Dash Home | If you are in a Ubuntu Linux, click on Dash Home. |
| Go to Search Box, type Audacity click on Audacity icon | Type Audacity in the Search Box
Click on the Audacity icon. |
| Point out the empty project on your screen | This will open an empty Audacity project on your screen. |
| Point out It’s appearance/look
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In the main Menu bar, we can see various options.
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| Point out the VCR controls under the Menu bar
Point out the Transport Toolbar |
We will learn about some of these in detail, as we go along.
Pause, Play, Stop, Rewind, Forward and Record. This is also called as Transport Toolbar. |
| Point out the Audacity Tools Toolbar | Next to this, we will find the Audacity Tools Toolbar. |
| Point out Selection Tool and Time Shift Tool. | It has Selection Tool and Time Shift Tool, which we will use in this tutorial. |
| Point to Selection Tool | By default, the Selection Tool is active. |
| Point out the Project Rate in Audacity | At the bottom left of the Audacity window, we can see the Project Rate.
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| Show screenshot of the Timed-script | As an example, I will use a Hindi script to record.
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| Slide 5
Script |
To practise alongside, the same script has been provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial.
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| Play the original tutorial Stop the player | First I will play the original English tutorial named as ’’What is Spoken Tutorial’’-A two minute overview.
“Audio file” Let me stop here |
| Narration only | Now I am going to dub this into Hindi language using Audacity. |
| Narration only | Switch to Audacity again. |
| Click on Record button in Audacity | To record, click on the Record button in the Transport Toolbar and narrate the script. |
| Start the narration | “Audio file”
स्पोकन ट्यूटोरियल प्रोजेक्ट के इस दो मिनट के संक्षिप्त विवरण में आपका स्वागत है। स्पोकन ट्यूटोरियल रनिंग कमेंट्री के साथ स्क्रीन कॉस्ट है। |
| Point out to Pause button
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Click on the Pause button in the Transport toolbar to pause the recording.
We can also press the P key on the keyboard, to pause while recording. |
| Narration only | Remember to give a pause for 1 or 2 seconds in between two sentences. |
| Again press P to resume the recording
Start the next narration |
Continue to narrate the script.
स्वयं सीखने के लिए <loud banging noise> स्वयं सीखने के लिए निर्मित सेशन की रिकॉर्डिंग है। |
| Click on the STOP button
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Now, click on the STOP button in the Transport toolbar to stop the recording.
You may have noticed that there was a loud noise while narrating the sentence. So I had to repeat it. I will teach you how to rectify this problem later in the series. |
| Locate Audio Tracks - Stereo Track and Mono Track | Now, look at the Tracks. |
| Narration only | The spikes are the waveforms of the audio. |
| Point out Mono Track | If there is only one track, then the audio is recorded in Mono mode. |
| Point out Stereo Track | And if there are 2 tracks, then the audio is recorded in Stereo mode. |
| Point out the Label on the left panel | This will be mentioned explicitly in the Label area on the left panel. |
| Point to the two tracks on the Audio Track | By default, the recording mode is set to Stereo.
We have recorded in Stereo mode, so we can see two tracks over here. |
| Narration only | But we can also set Mono mode as the default mode. |
| Click on the Audio Track | Click on the Audio Track. |
| Click on the Tracks option
Click on Stereo Track to Mono
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In the Main menu, go to the Tracks option.
Click on the option Stereo Track to Mono. This will convert the stereo track to mono. |
| Press Ctrl + Z keys | Let us revert back to Stereo Track by pressing Ctrl + Z keys. |
| Narration only | Now let’s record further in the same file. |
| Narration only | Ideally, we should record in one go so that we get a single audio track. Now, let me adjust the track for a better view. |
| Click on Selection Tool. | Click on the Selection Tool. |
| Click at the end of the Audio Track | Click at the end of the previous recording on the Audio Track. |
| Click on the Record button
Start the narration
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Now, click on the Record button to start the recording again and narrate the next sentence.
... "हम FOSS का प्रचार करते हैं जो डिजिटल डिवाइड को मिटाने के लिए उपयोगी है” |
| Click on the Stop button | Click on the Stop button to stop the recording. |
| Point out the second narration that will come in another Stereo Track. | Please note.
This audio clip will appear in a separate Stereo Track. |
| Narration only | Once we press Stop button and restart recording, the audio clip will always appear on a new track. Let me again adjust the track for a better view.
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| Merge Tracks | Next, we will learn how to merge all these audio tracks into a single track. |
| Choose Time Shift Tool | Choose Time Shift Tool. |
| Select the audio clip from the second track | Select the audio clip from the second track by clicking on it. |
| Drag-and-drop it at the end of the first audio track. | Drag-and-drop it at the end of the first audio track. |
| Point ot the 2 clips >> move the second clip back and forth | Notice here the 2 clips appear to be merged.
But it is actually not so. |
| Click on the joint between the 2 clip >> move the clip back and forth
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To merge 2 audio clips, simply click on the joint between the clips.
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| Move the clip | Now we can move the whole clip wherever we want. |
| Point to the second audio track | Notice here - the second audio track is now empty. |
| Click on the 'X' button in the label area at the extreme left | We can remove it by clicking on the 'X' button in the Label area. |
| Point out that the track is removed | Observe that the track has been removed.
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| Save the audio file | Once we are done with the recording, we should save the file. |
| Go to the File menu
Click on Save Project. |
To do so, go to the File menu and click on Save Project. |
| Click on Don’t show this warning again.
Click on OK. |
A dialog box will open. And it will ask for a filename. |
| Give filename as Hindi-What-is-ST | I am giving the filename as "Hindi-What-is-ST". |
| Point out that it will ask for the location | Next it will ask for the location where it has to be saved. |
| Choose Desktop and click on Save | I will choose Desktop and then click on Save.
This will save the project as 'Hindi-What-is-ST.aup' file |
| Narration only | Note: we have only saved the project file.
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| Close the project file | Now close this project file. |
| Open Hindi-What-is-ST.aup file | Next, let us see how to open an existing project file.
On the Desktop, we had saved the file Hindi-What-is-ST.aup. |
| Narration only
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Whenever we save the Audacity Project file, it will also create a folder named as Projectname_data.
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| Double Click on Hindi-What-is-ST.aup | Double-click on Hindi-What-is-ST.aup to open it. |
| Locate the audio track | You can see the audio track inside.
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| Close the project file | Now let us close this project file. |
| Slide Number 6a
Summary |
Let me summarize the tutorial for you.
In this tutorial we have learnt how to-
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| Slide Number 6b
Summary |
Merge 2 audio clips
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| Slide Number 7
Assignment |
As an assignment,
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| Slide Number 8a
About Spoken Tutorial project
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Watch the video available at this link. The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| Slide Number 8b
Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The Spoken Tutorial Project Team:
conduct workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
| Slides on Forums 8c
Forum for specific questions |
Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
| Slide Number 9
Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
More information on this Mission is available at this link. |
| Previous slide | This script has been contributed by the Spoken Tutorial Team.
And this is Mousumi Medhi from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for joining. |
