Audio Recording Apps
Brandy Thatcher demonstrated the three apps that are great for creating audio recordings with a tablet.
SOUND CLOUD
http://www.soundcloud.fm
Advertised as the world’s leading social sound platform, Sound Cloud offers a website and mobile app for finding, sharing and creating audio and music. You can listen to a variety of music, podcasts, comedy and news available in their library. You can follow other Sound Cloud accounts, so you will see their new audio and updates. One of the strengths of Sound Cloud is the ability to easily record an audio file on a tablet using the mobile app. The app is available in the iOS/Apple store, Android/Google Play store, and in the Windows 8 store.Creating Recordings with Sound CloudYou can create a free account on the Sound Cloud website or through the mobile app. One of the best advantages of using Sound Cloud is that you can easily publish your recording to the Sound Cloud website from your tablet. With your recording stored in the online, you can get embed code for the recording to place in Blackboard or another website. You do have to access the website from a computer to get the embed code for the recording. You have a choice of making each recording private or public. If the recordings are public you have the option to share them on Facebook or Twitter from your mobile app. If the recording is private you can share it through email with the mobile app. You can download m4a files of your recording from the website, also. There is a limit with the free account that allows you 120 minutes of recorded audio hosted in your Sound Cloud account. You can have up to 100 downloads per recording. You can visit http://soundcloud.com/101/education to learn more about using Sound Cloud in education.
AUDIOBOO
http://audioboo.fm/
ios: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/audioboo/id305204540?mt=8
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Audioboo&hl=en
Recording an audio recording is very straight-forward. One limitation is that the recordings can only be 3 minutes long. You can add a title, picture and description for the audio recording. You can save and upload the audio file directly to the Audiboo website. You do have the ability to share your "boos" on Facebook and Twitter. You can click "more" on any recording for additional options to share. You can copy a "url," send it through email and open it in safari. You can also copy embed code for each recording to place it in Blackboard. The website gives you a feature similar to Pinterest where you can create boards (or collections) of your "boos" and organize them. then you could share a board - you can embed the whole board of multiple audio files - might have some use in education setting. There is no ability to download the recordings and there is no ability to make the recordings private.
There is a lot of support information available on the web for using Audioboos in education. Audioboo has a blog that often runs articles on using Audioboo in education. A few resources on Audioboo in education:
- http://blog.audioboo.fm/tag/education/
- http://techmeetsed.com/2011/06/05/audioboo-in-the-classroom-pt-1/
- http://blog.audioboo.fm/2012/10/02/some-great-examples-of-audioboo-in-education/
- http://blog.audioboo.fm/tag/education/
- http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2011/01/audioboo-your-audio-alternative-in.html
- http://techmeetsed.com/2011/06/05/audioboo-in-the-classroom-pt-1/
WAVEPAD
http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/pocket.html
This sound editing software is a professional quality audio editor for the iPhone and iPad. It lets you create and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and reverb. (from the website) The software is available on the Windows and Mac for free. The mobile app called Pocket Wavepad is only available for ios:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-wavepad-hd/id418674227?mt=8http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/pocket.html
This software and app is more complex than the other two audio apps above and it does not provide a website to upload audio too. These would be the main limitations of the app. The app has the benefit of providing a full audio editor within the app. Recording is very simple, the interface for recording is very similar to a cassette player. You will choose an audio file format to save the file in. The file can be emailed or ftp'd. Click the gear icon and choose an mp3 as your format and the default sample rates are likely fine. They can be changed to your specific preferences, though. After you create the recording you can click through to see the waveform and do editing. You can apply effects and filters, cut audio and much more. It does take quite a while to get used to the editor and learn it, but once you do, you can do some very advanced editing right on your ipad. You can import/export audio in the mobile app to your itunes/icloud account. Once you email the audio file to yourself and download the attached mp3 file. I would recommend uploading this audio file to www.divshare.com. This website is a streaming host and setting up a free account gives 5 gig of storage and it provides a simple embed code that can be embedded into your Blackboard site. Ta Da! A lecture capture solution that doesn't cost $60,000+.
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