If you don’t have a backup storage solution, Google Drive can hold you over until you can buy a thumb drive or something. If you really like Google Drive as a backup, you can pay 1.99 a month for 100GB of storage (improved from the free 15GB) or 2.99 a month for 200GB of storage, which will last quite some time. Their most expensive option is 299.99 a month for 30TB of data, but that’s really some overkill not worth considering.
I’d agree. I like the sound of your voice (definitely better than I enjoy mine, and mine passes). I’d work on your noise floor some, though it’s hard to analyze without some good room noise samples in your file.
The reason being that it might be passing now, but it’s not passing by much. Your mic and Audacity are going to pick up everything, including noises we can’t hear very well, or at all. If an airplane goes overhead, or a gentle breeze comes through your room, heater turns on, etc., you might run the risk of failing.
Kozikowski has a kitchen table studio build you can make that can help out depending on the situation. https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/too-compressed-rejection/52825/22
I used his build and made a slightly different version of it as seen in this photo, and it lowered my noise floor substantially. Total cost was about 25 dollars with some coupons.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=105728&start=10#p372741