# audacity, my accessible review

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 20:49:36

Someone posted about audacity and it's accessibility on this bord a while back so thought I'd give my oppinions on it. I started using it the other day and it's a pretty little neat free sound editor. I find this program to be very accessible with jaws. It has shortcut keys which help with the accessibility. If anyone of you are interested in a free sound editor I would encourage you to check out this program at: audacity.sourceforge.net/
You can do a lot of neat little things with it.
Troy

## Post 2 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 22:11:17

Hey Troy, could you be a bit more specific? I've played around with it, but I'd love to learn more. I've been trying to create ring tones with it. Is there a way to loop a portion of a track? Thanks!

## Post 3 by nikos (English words from a Greek thinking brain) on Saturday, 17-Jun-2006 22:27:50

I agree. This is not called a review. I would say it's called a recomendation. A good review should demonstrate the most useful features of the programme with examples and also point out advantages and disadvantages. This is my oppinion.

## Post 4 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Sunday, 18-Jun-2006 21:32:26

As far as ringtones go, I haven't played around with that yet. If you press the letter r within the audacity window y you can record. Also you can import mp3 or .wav files with this. Just press control I and an import file will come up and it's just basically like a file browser you search for the file you want in your music directory or where ever you have your audio files. From here you can do lots of things with it. You can also record overtop of your self and make a blind. Like for example if you record yourself singing, you can record over type of that singing hier or lower. You can also change speeds and add echos as well. You just press control a then hit the alt key to bring up the menues and arrow over to affects and pick which one you want. There's also a bunch of plug ins for it on the website that I haven't installed. If anyone has any questions you can ask here or pm them to me.
Troy

## Post 5 by jmbauer (Technology's great until it stops working.) on Monday, 19-Jun-2006 0:15:57

Iirc, you can set up keyboard shortcuts for virtually any command in the program.

## Post 6 by Dave_H (the boringest guy you'll ever know) on Monday, 19-Jun-2006 23:57:10

But, I have trouble selecting part of a sound (parts not either at beginning or end of a file). Otherwise, yes, get and try Audacity.

## Post 7 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2006 20:45:34

That was my question, how do you select audio? in adobe audition you can either use keys to mark the beginning and end of a porsion of audio or use the shift with right or left arrows to select or un select audio. Whatcha think?

## Post 8 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2006 0:18:39

Hey, Willy; sellecting audio is very similar in audacity as well. I haven't played with it enough to have it memorized, but it is something like using the control or shift and left and right arrows. You use the spacebar to hear what you have sellected. I think it is something like control f to fucos all audio, control a to sellect all; I think. Not sure. smile!

## Post 9 by sparkie (the hilljack) on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2006 19:57:47

Hey. Someone informed me of a list for blind users with audacity. It's audacity4blind@freelists.org
the dedicated website is
users.northlc.com/sberry/

## Post 10 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2006 21:19:21

Okay! her'es a chalange for someone and it works like this on the Mac as well as the PC. Oh! first, thantks for the selecting tip appreciate that... Now, here's what happens. I select audio and as pointed out before spacebar let's me hear the selected passage however, when I press either command-k for the mac or ctrl-k for the PC to delete the selected audio when I play it back I still ehar the whole file. So, anybody try this deleting audio and how is it done? I did also try the delete key. Help!!!! this could be good if I could get it to work.

## Post 11 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Thursday, 06-Jul-2006 21:23:20

okkay! think I solved the deleteing problems. This program works slower then audition and I think I was moving too fast for it. Now. has anyone tried the eq and how to you access the individual bands. I only saw the radio buttons for the preset curvs.

## Post 12 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 09-Jul-2006 19:42:18

OKay! tought I solved my problem but it seems to turn out that before you select audio you have to use ctrl-a to select the while file and then delect the porsion of audio you want. Any thoughts here?