Oh my, looks like I already discussed audacity for last week blog... Hmmmm OH, i'll just tell you guys the new things i was able to learn in audacity. For example, amplifying the sound by using the effect -> amplify keys. This made it so easy to hear my voice with a not so good mic. It can also lower the volume of the recording which is helpful when you want to overlay music over your talking/podcast. I also learned how to increase the speed of my voice making me sound like a chickmunk which is pretty awesome. This would go very well if i wanted to make a recording that is purely for entertainment or maybe i can sing with the chickmunk voice and not feel embarrassed cause that's not my real voice! bahahaha good ol audacity...
Let see.... audio tied to text.. what does that mean? What does that mean... I'm going to interpret as this; audio and text are related to each other due to what is going on in your head. Let me elaborate, when you read a paragraph of text, what is the voice you are using it when you read it? That voice that you're reading it with in your head is also the voice that you would use when u record yourself reading that text. So that's how i see audio and text being related. If you still don't understand what i'm saying lets say you read something like "the cat went meow"; did you or did you not make that meow sound like a cat?? I know you did because that's how audio and text are coming together.. its a natural thing!
how is audio not tied to text.. hmmm good quesiton... how is it not tied to text.... hmmmm let me think... still thinking... uhm.... I think i got it.... audio isn't text in a way that you are not able to know the tone of the text while when a person first says a word you are able to know what he is feeling. For example, read this outloud..."There is a cat in the tree".... did you read that normally? Well if you did you are wrong because the last few words were going to be "said the man in a very loud voice". Now you know that the sentence that you just read was actually a shout and making us know that the cat is in danger. BUT now if I were to just say "There is a cat in the tree" just using my voice; you will definitely know straight up that the cat is in danger without knowing the next sentence or phrase that will come out of my mouth as if u were reading a text. If you are still confused by what I mean uhmm oh wells you just gotta live with it hahaha..
Food For Thought
If you were asked to survive for 30 days on an a mysterious island like the movie Cast Away by Tom Hanks, but instead of having nothing, you get to pick 3 things; anything u want that will help you survive those 30 days; What will those 3 things be? (Note: if you decide to pick a human being to be your companion think about how you are going to provide for yourself as well as for that companion... things could go chaotic and you guys end up eating each other :O!)
Hey! First of all, i really like how when you blog, it almost seems like I can hear (i.e. read) your actual thought process as it's occurring. That's some seriously awesome first order blogging haha and I really enjoy reading it because I feel like I'm able to get a much better understanding of what your talking about/how you've come to interpret different ideas. Also, I think you interpreted the whole audio tied to text thing really interestingly in terms of recording audio in the same voice you use in your own head. At first, I didn't think that was the case for me at all, but as I read on and actually payed attention to the unguarded and quintessentially "me" voice I use in the privacy of my own head, I can totally see where you are coming from.
ReplyDeleteAs for how they're not tied-- I agree with you on the whole issue of tone. I've encountered this problems more times than I can count in the context of text messages and emails being read and interpreted in a completely different way than I had originally intended... thank goodness for emojis <3 :)
Audacity is such a coo resource to use when making a recording. So many tools that can be used to do so many things with such as the amplifying tool or making your voice sound like a chipmunk. And I can see where you are coming from with how audio and text correlate with each other. As I read text or material I try to use my voice or the author/person voice to get a closer understand of the text. I do it a lot when I read text messages. But at the same time text can not really be interpreted in the way some people mean it when it comes to audio because of the tone they want to have behind the text.
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