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I rarely use Windows, but I seem to recall there being some sort of an "exclusive mode" option in Windows Sound Control Panel.

Try gently tapping the microphone while recording to ensure that you are recording from that microphone and not from somewhere else (I'm not sure what you meant by "not a traditional one"). What sort of "noise" do you hear? Assuming the "noise" is a hiss type noise, try...

Audacity is not smart when reading multi-channel WAV files, and that should be good for you. It simply imports channel 1 as the first track, channel 2 as the second, and so on for the rest of the channels. To help you test, here is a 1 second duration 4 channel WAV file that has the following channe...

You've not said that you've done so, but every time I have come across this issue on Windows has been because a USB audio device has been connected. If this is the case, then the answer is here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... k.html#usb

You can also try audio to text services like ..... There are thousands of such companies on the Internet which Is why I suggested doing an internet search. Prices generally start FROM around $1 US per minute of audio. We have a strict policy on this forum for not accepting adverts or spam (advertis...

Gee thanks. I didn't know it was that expensive. Imagine if you were the person charging for the job rather than the person paying. At, say, 200 spoken words per minute, that would be 12,000 words per hour. At say 600 words per page, that's about 20 pages single spacing, and I presume that it needs...

Do a Google search for "transcription services". A commercial transcription service is likely to give the most accurate transcription. There is also commercial software, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, that can convert spoken voice into text, but for accurate results you have to spend s...

yllac006 wrote: I received an error message, it tells me to use "Make Stereo Track

The Vocal removal effect that is included with Audacity does not have that error message. Either you are using some other effect, or you must have misread the error message.

refinisher wrote:i was told that you had to set up a password and user name to transfer files from a voice recorder. just checking to be sure

We have no idea what you are talking about. Does this have anything to do with Audacity? If so, please explain clearly what you mean.

32 kHz refers to the sample rate, not the bit rate.
pcm_u8 is 8 bit not 16 bit.
It may help if you told us what you are actually doing. What are these files for?