Recording and encoding analog data

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Skills: Set sample size and rate in Audacity
Concepts: analog versus digital data, analog to digital conversion, digital to analog conversion, sample rate, sample size, quality-file size trade off

Audio compression

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Skills: audio compression
Concepts: the audio processing workflow, quality-file size trade off, capture-edit-compress, lossy versus lossless compression

Editing speech with Audacity

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Prerequisite topic module


Skills: simple audio editing, exporting the result, finding free sound effects and music
Concepts: audio editing operations, audio effects, audio utility software, Creative Commons license

Exporting .mp3 files

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Prerequisite topic module

Skills: export .mp3 files, configure Audacity
Concepts: metadata

Note: This module is superseded by Configure Audacity to export .mp3 files.

Audio recording

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Skills: microphone position and adjustment
Concepts: clipping, dynamic range, sample frequency and size, amount of information captured