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quickly create files of these Q/A's

Audio (or video) production generally takes five times the length of the show. That's a good number to burn into your production design. Shortcuts always look like shortcuts.

Koz

These flashcards are in a Q/A format.

Which is what exactly? Is this a custom application? Are you designing the application?
Koz

You don't "shut it off."

What are you trying to do?

Koz

"How do I make my voice into..."
Is a frequent request.

Koz

The File > Export dialog box should ask you where to put the file.
Koz

I misspoke. Starting from the same perfect WAV quality, a 32-bit mono MP3 will sound the same as a 64 bit stereo.

Koz

I'm just now catching up. Are you hand-holding the microphone?

Stop that.

Koz

my face my particularly close to the mic The noise problems are pretty obvious now that you know what to look for, but how are you going to get louder? Slightly low volume isn't usually a big deal, but you have a noisy microphone (fffffffffff). That combination is Not Good. We can't take hiss out o...

Real Time anything is a future feature request.
Koz

Yes, but you may not want to. You take a quality hit no matter what you do. Audacity has to make a new MP3 with normal quality damage, so even if all you did was pull an MP3 in and Export it immediately at the same quality, it will be half as good. The best way to get half the filesizes is transform...