Teaching English as Foreign Language cannot be separated from learning linguistics knowledge. One of them is pronunciation or the way learners pronounce the words they read. Related to this competence, learners should acquire skill of pronunciation to be able to pronounce the word from phonetic transcription correctly.
There is a software to teach and check whether they already pronounce it correctly or not. It is called Audacity. Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity has also been used to record and mix entire albums.
To record your voice in Audacity:
1) Make sure your microphone is plugged in and on
1) Make sure your microphone is plugged in and on
2) Do a microphone check: In the Lab, use the Mic check icon on the desktop. On your own machine, you can record something in Windows Sound Recorder (Start >> Accessories >> Entertainment >> Sound Recorder). If the microphone is not working, check the Windows sound settings (Instructions at the end of this document)
3) Check your Audacity settings
a. Edit >> Preferences
b. Recommended settings:
i. Audio I/O >> Recording Channels [Mono (1)] >> [OK]
ii. Quality >> Default Sample Rate [22050 Hz] >> [OK]
a. Edit >> Preferences
b. Recommended settings:
i. Audio I/O >> Recording Channels [Mono (1)] >> [OK]
ii. Quality >> Default Sample Rate [22050 Hz] >> [OK]
4) Click on the red Record button
5) Speak into the microphone
NOTE: You may need to adjust the recording level in the Windows volume control
NOTE: You may need to adjust the recording level in the Windows volume control
6) To stop recording, click on the yellow Stop button
7) Export
(File >> Export as [whatever format you want]) Choose a filename and location (In the Lab, you can only save to Temporary Local File Storage or your own AFS space) NOTE: for .mp3, you will have to set the ID3 tags Most of the time this does not matter and you can just click [OK], but ID3v1 works better in some situations, like exporting to Flash.
(File >> Export as [whatever format you want]) Choose a filename and location (In the Lab, you can only save to Temporary Local File Storage or your own AFS space) NOTE: for .mp3, you will have to set the ID3 tags Most of the time this does not matter and you can just click [OK], but ID3v1 works better in some situations, like exporting to Flash.
If you find it difficult to follow the witten instructions above, you can check this video
You can download it at: http://www.filehippo.com/download_audacity/
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