Audacity/C2/Record-an-audio-using-Audacity/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Hello Everyone. Welcome to this tutorial on How to Dub using Audacity.
00:08	In this tutorial, we will learn to dub or record an audio using Audacity.
00:15	To record this tutorial I am using Ubuntu Linux OS version 14.04.
00:22	Audacity version 2.1.2 A headset with an audio input
00:29	I have already installed Audacity 2.1.2 on my Linux system.
00:36	For more details, refer to the Translation and Dubbing Series on our website
00:42	Now let us open Audacity to dub or record a script.
00:47	If you are a Windows user, click on Start Menu and type Audacity in the search box.
00:56	Click on Audacity from the displayed list.
01:00	This will open an empty Audacity project on your screen.
01:05	If you are in a Ubuntu Linux, click on Dash Home.
01:10	Type Audacity in the Search Box Click on the Audacity icon.
01:17	This will open an empty Audacity project on your screen.
01:22	In the main Menu bar, we can see various options. Like File, Edit, View, Transport, Tracks and others.
01:34	We will learn about some of these in detail, as we go along.
01:40	Below the main Menu bar, we will see the VCR controls such as Pause, Play, Stop, Rewind, Forward and Record.
01:54	This is also called as Transport Toolbar.
01:58	Next to this, we will find the Audacity Tools Toolbar.
02:03	It has Selection Tool and Time Shift Tool, which we will use in this tutorial.
02:11	By default, the Selection Tool is active.
02:15	At the bottom left of the Audacity window, we can see the Project Rate.
02:21	Click on the drop-down arrow. We recommend to keep the Project Rate in Audacity file to 22050 Hz.
02:32	Low Project Rate will ensure low file size of the final mp3 file.
02:38	As an example, I will use a Hindi script to record. This script has begin timings of each sentence.
02:48	I will be using these noted timings while editing the audio track later.
02:54	To practise alongside, the same script has been provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial. Please download and use it.
03:05	First I will play the original English tutorial named as ’’What is Spoken Tutorial’’-A two minute overview.
	---Add the audio----
03:33	Let me stop here
03:36	Now I am going to dub this into Hindi language using Audacity.
03:42	Switch to Audacity again.
03:45	To record, click on the Record button in the Transport Toolbar and narrate the script.
04:04	Click on the Pause button in the Transport toolbar to pause the recording.
04:10	We can also press the P key on the keyboard, to pause while recording.
04:16	Remember to give a pause for 1 or 2 seconds in between two sentences.
04:23	Continue to narrate the script. To resume the recording, again press the P key.
04:40	Now, click on the STOP button in the Transport toolbar to stop the recording.
04:46	You may have noticed that there was a loud noise while narrating the sentence. So I had to repeat it.
04:56	I will teach you how to rectify this problem later in the series.
05:02	Now, look at the Tracks.
05:05	The spikes are the waveforms of the audio.
05:09	If there is only one track, then the audio is recorded in Mono mode.
05:15	And if there are 2 tracks, then the audio is recorded in Stereo mode.
05:23	This will be mentioned explicitly in the Label area on the left panel.
05:28	By default, the recording mode is set to Stereo.
05:33	We have recorded in Stereo mode, so we can see two tracks over here.
05:39	But we can also set Mono mode as the default mode.
05:44	Click on the Audio Track.
05:47	In the Main menu, go to the Tracks option.
05:51	Click on the option Stereo Track to Mono. This will convert the stereo track to mono.
05:59	Let us revert back to Stereo Track by pressing Ctrl + Z keys.
06:06	Now let’s record further in the same file.
06:10	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.
06:22	Click on the Selection Tool.
06:25	Click at the end of the previous recording on the Audio Track.
06:30	Now, click on the Record button to start the recording again and narrate the next sentence.
06:38	Add the audio
06:45	Click on the Stop button to stop the recording.
06:49	Please note. This audio clip will appear in a separate Stereo Track.
06:55	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.
07:08	Next, we will learn how to merge all these audio tracks into a single track.
07:15	Choose Time Shift Tool.
07:18	Select the audio clip from the second track by clicking on it.
07:24	Drag-and-drop it at the end of the first audio track.
07:29	Notice here the 2 clips appear to be merged. But it is actually not so.
07:37	To merge 2 audio clips, simply click on the joint between the clips. They are now merged into a single clip.
07:47	Now we can move the whole clip wherever we want.
07:52	Notice here - the second audio track is now empty.
07:57	We can remove it by clicking on the 'X' button in the Label area.
08:03	Observe that the track has been removed. It’s a good habit to remove empty tracks.
08:11	Once we are done with the recording, we should save the file.
08:16	To do so, go to the File menu and click on Save Project.
08:24	A dialog box will open. And it will ask for a filename.
08:30	I am giving the filename as "Hindi-What-is-ST".
08:35	Next it will ask for the location where it has to be saved.
08:40	I will choose Desktop and then click on Save. This will save the project as 'Hindi-What-is-ST.aup' file
08:52	Note: we have only saved the project file.
08:56	The audio is not yet in the format that can play in any audio/video player.
09:03	Now close this project file.
09:06	Next, let us see how to open an existing project file.
09:11	On the Desktop, we had saved the file Hindi-What-is-ST.aup.
09:18	Whenever we save the Audacity Project file, it will also create a folder named as Projectname_data.
09:28	In my case it is Hindi-What-is-ST_data.
09:35	This folder contains the Audacity data for each project.
09:40	If this folder is deleted or moved to another location, then we cannot open and edit the Audacity project.
09:49	Double-click on Hindi-What-is-ST.aup to open it.
09:55	You can see the audio track inside.
09:59	Now let us close this project file.
10:03	Let me summarize the tutorial for you.
10:06	In this tutorial we have learnt how to- Open Audacity Dub/Record using Audacity
10:14	Locate audio tracks - Stereo Track and Mono Track
10:19	Convert from Stereo Track to Mono Track
10:23	Merge 2 audio clips Delete an empty track
10:28	Save the project as .aup file Open an existing Audacity file
10:36	As an assignment, Refer to any Timed-script on the Spoken Tutorial website.
10:43	Record an audio file using that script and save the project.
10:48	The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
10:54	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
10:59	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team: conduct workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us.
11:09	Please post your timed queries in this forum.
11:13	Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this Mission is available at this link.
11:26	This script has been contributed by the Spoken Tutorial Team. And this is Mousumi Medhi from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for joining.

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