Paste a sound into an existing project / merge

Hi all …

I’m doing a quiz countdown timer for a Christmas quiz.

I have the backing track laid down, and now want to superimpose the spoken numbers 10, and 5 over the back track.

Can’t seem to find in the help or tutorials, but it must be possible to do …

Any help would be appreciated …

If you want to record yourself saying the numbers, that’s called “overdubbing”. The tutorial is here: Tutorial - Recording Multi-track Overdubs - Audacity Manual

If you already have the spoken part as a file, then you can simply “Import” the file (“File menu > Import > Audio”) and it will appear in the project as a new track. You can reposition the imported track by clicking and dragging the bar at the top of the track (See: “Clip Handles”: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html#handles)

I’ve managed it perfect now thanks, I jumped the gun posting on here …