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Is this something your are comfortable in doing or know someone who does. Neither one. Audacity is not a massive corporation with help desk and training departments. It's a rag-tag group of volunteers across many time zones who does this in small fractions of time ripped from other activities. This...

memo app Voice Memo if you didn't download anything. If the phone is built the same as others in the sequence, the microphone is on the back and it pays well to speak into it instead of the screen. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/iPodMicrophone3-650.jpg It's as directional as these things get. O...

There's a cousin problem called the Uncanny Valley. You very rarely see a live actor animated on the screen. We're so sensitive to what faces look like that if the animation isn't absolutely, totally, perfectly correct, the audience sees through it immediately and the performance falls apart. Studio...

I wish I used the correct technical language. S'OK. We sometimes hit these things on a dead run and you get sandwiched between other posters. Perfectly true. Recording sound on a Windows machine is a pain in the neck—largely, oddly enough, from the efforts of the Windows people to keep it from bein...

Acting is the easiest way. Find an old woman's voice you like and try to imitate it. Keep recording the effort. There are tricks for minor timbre change such as putting cotton in your cheeks. I'm a male bass. I briefly did a woman's voice strictly with acting and microphone placement. Lauren Bacall'...

Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy was voiced by Bradley Cooper.

Koz

You need the Acting Filter or Theatrical Expression Modifier. I'm making all that up. This is one of those jobs that it's tempting to say it's impossible. It's not, but it's very highly impractical. So you'll need Envelope tool (two white arrows and bent blue line). That will let you change volume o...

can a process like it instead be applied to every sample of that track? Sure. Start the process now. Come back next week. The reason it's called "RMS" is the electrical association. Root Mean Square is an electrical measurement that calculates the area under the wave—the blue waves—like o...

Missed a step:

http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/

Koz

I guess it's possible you need Audacity 2.1.3 for that......

Koz