Audacity Forum

Home readers never pass noise. In English, -60dB means the background noise when you stop talking needs to be a thousand times quieter than your voice. Audacity displays can make this worse because the blue waves don't measure that. Sometimes, your recording technique can cause noise problems or mak...

I know you want us to tell you "Push This Button," but there is no history of what causes your problem. I'm extrapolating from your symptoms and knowing basically how computers do things. Even worse, of course, you also have "This used to work and now it doesn't." That puts you i...

So it is up to the user to decide which plug-ins they want. I want the one I just installed. I like the Macro model. No way would I want all of them enabled in Audacity. Now lets shift our focus from Joe Pro-Studio to me mum. She's being forced into Joe's massive plugin management system just so sh...

Which virus software do you use? I know you have a terabyte (TB) hard drive, so do I, but you're at the end of an existing book production. Are you starting to fill it up? Is it a solid-state drive? Does it say anywhere? If it is, they're really fast and just do their thing and that's the way it is ...

I am using a laptop it is an Acer Aspire Are you on "Shore Power," are you plugged into the wall? Do you have a little light on the top called HD, or Drive or something like that? That used to signify the machine is having to access the hard drive and it was a big deal if it happened too ...

You didn't mention headphones. Those are super-highly recommended. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/lin-manuelMicrophone.jpg When you talk without them, your voice seems (to you) to be over-accented, theatrical, and cartoony. When you hear it played back, it can be a perfectly normal presente...

There are some "actor" tricks, too. If you read a long presentation, unless it says otherwise, the beginning and end have to match. This is a frequent New User problem. They get to the last book chapter, listen to how dreadful the first one was and read the first few again. Not everything ...

Where is <drive>? Audacity can have troubles with network or cloud drives.

Koz

Find voices you like and compare your voice to theirs. ACX/Audible has voices for hire and they post samples. I've never investigated this, but I know it's possible to get hired to read an audiobook written by someone else. https://www.acx.com/help/narrators/200484550 It's possible to have microphon...

I don't hear the damage you describe on audible.co.uk - 'Ghost Phone' sample. We note that in the US, that link is re-directed to audible.com. You have to pay attention. The UK link is available. MP3 submission to Audible is at 192 Quality MP3 which, given a mono and not stereo submission is far hig...