David W Jackson Posted February 24, 2007 at 06:31 AM Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 at 06:31 AM Flameproof, how EXACTLY do you cut up the lesson? I mean, what tools/software do you use to do that? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameproof Posted February 24, 2007 at 07:51 AM Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 at 07:51 AM Flameproof, how EXACTLY do you cut up the lesson? I mean, what tools/software do you use to do that? I use Cool Edit, I have that since ages. However, it's not freeware. For FREE I suggest Audacity. I haven't tried it, so let me know..... http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volga_volga Posted February 25, 2007 at 12:57 AM Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 at 12:57 AM flameproof, thanks for the link. this looks good. i was looking for such programme for a while now... are you a Russian speaker by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted February 25, 2007 at 02:26 AM Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 at 02:26 AM Split this from the Chinesepod discussion. Another vote for audacity - very useful tool and very easy to use. Maybe takes a little time to figure out what you can do with it, but worth the effort. If you do a search on audacity you'll find previous comments about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onebir Posted February 25, 2007 at 10:26 AM Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 at 10:26 AM There's also a portable version of Audacity. No install required, so you can carry it around on a USB key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted February 25, 2007 at 03:19 PM Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 at 03:19 PM Was going to write more about audacity yesterday but didn't have time. Audacity is useful as it lets you lay out multiple soundtracks on one page, lets you listen to one, some or all of them at one time, lets you copy and paste bits of sound around the same way you do with text in Word, and you can save it all as a project file so it's all there when you come back to it later. As an example, you could have a recording from your textbook in mp3 format. You open it with audacity and listen to it a few times. Then you record yourself reading the same line. Then you mute the textbook version and listen to yourself, try to spot what's wrong then rerecord minus (hopefully) the mistakes. Then you compare your second version with the model and realize you are still getting one sound wrong. So you highlight just that bit of audio and listen to it 10 times, comparing it with your version. You're still not quite sure what's going on, so you slow it down by 50% and that helps a bit. So you record your third version, and while it isn't perfect you feel fairly happy with it. Then you're tired so you save it and go to bed. The next morning you open it up again and review your first, second and third attempts with fresh ears, taking note of the changes you made for future reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameproof Posted February 26, 2007 at 05:09 AM Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 at 05:09 AM I am not sure about Audacity, but CoolEdit has a "de-noise" function. It works really great on old tapes to get rid of the often strong background hiss noise. I think Audacity can do that too. It would be great for the FSI fans out there..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted February 26, 2007 at 05:10 AM Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 at 05:10 AM Audacity does, never used it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowdh Posted February 26, 2007 at 08:13 AM Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 at 08:13 AM Many thanks for the links guys, It will be very useful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Jackson Posted February 27, 2007 at 07:05 AM Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 at 07:05 AM Thanks Flameproof. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Pan Posted April 24, 2007 at 10:06 AM Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 at 10:06 AM I practice my 听力 by listening Chinese MP3 (textbook recordings + podcasts). Do you know what software could help me to select some parts of these MP3 and save them as another MP3 file. For instance this would be very usefull for CRI news as I usually only listen a small part of them; the great thing would be to save these parts and then make compilations. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted April 24, 2007 at 10:22 AM Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 at 10:22 AM You may wish to consider mp3 knife. I have not used it before but it looks very user-friendly. Here is a video showing you how to use it -> http://www.vcsoftwares.com/smk.avi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney Posted April 24, 2007 at 02:01 PM Report Share Posted April 24, 2007 at 02:01 PM Try this http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Pan Posted April 25, 2007 at 07:19 AM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 07:19 AM Thanks for these suggestions. Any idea how to convert a Windows Media file to MP3 format (CRI news are all in .wma) ? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 25, 2007 at 07:53 AM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 07:53 AM See here, and click on the "Free MP3 WMA Converter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowdh Posted April 25, 2007 at 08:35 AM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 08:35 AM Imron you rock thanks mate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted April 25, 2007 at 12:20 PM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 12:20 PM Any idea how to convert a Windows Media file to MP3 format (CRI news are all in .wma) ? I use FreeRip -> http://www.mgshareware.com/frmmain.shtml Used it last night to convert the theme song of "Six Million Dollar Man" from wma to mp3 for my brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Pan Posted April 25, 2007 at 03:02 PM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 03:02 PM Thanks, it helps a lot. Just one more question, is that normal that a 2 M wma file gives a 8 M MP3 file ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 25, 2007 at 03:50 PM Report Share Posted April 25, 2007 at 03:50 PM More or less. WMA has better compression than MP3, but you should be able to tweak the conversion parameters to get a smaller size (using lower bitrates etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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