Audacity Sound Editor

This post is to fulfill a requirement for my EDU 519 class at American University. The assignment asked me to learn a new program and reflect on it. So, here it goes...

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In the past, I've used sound editing programs to mix CDs using products from Roxio and SoundForge. For my class on Critical Literacy, I used a Roxio sound editor to create podcasts. For my EDU519 class, we were required to use Audacity as a sound editor.

Audacity is a FREE audio and sound editor with open source software for people who want to further develop and customize the application. It's easy to use and has a lot of the same features that the other products I have used (but it's FREE). I haven't done a whole lot of exploring with it, but it has a lot of great utilities for creating effects, mixing audio, and noise filtering.

Since it is freeware in development, there are some risks in using it since there may be bugs. In the limited amount of time I have used it, I haven't run into any problems yet.

I used Audacity to create a podcast for my EDU519 class. Check it out here.