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Learn how to record a lesson with Talk Parrot

 

As the content of our lessons is what really important to us, we know that listeners will not tune in if the sound is anything but perfect. When recording a two side conversation, for example with Skype, usually the voice of the speaker on the far side comes out pretty bad and has a poor quality feeling.

 

To work around this problem we strongly suggest to our companion teachers to record their own voice separately (while Skyping with us) and later on send this recording to us, for further adjustments. On behalf of the teacher, this does not necessitate more than a couple of mouse clicks.

 

So this is what we recommend:

 

1. Find the most quiet room in your house. Use a headset with microphone or an external microphone but do not count on your computer’s built-in microphone as these tend to pick a lot of background noise and produce poor sound quality in general. Here is an example of a relatively good headset. There are even cheaper options to be found on the net.

2. ​Download the free sound editing program Audacity. Using this popular program you’d be able to easily record your side of the conversation and then send it to us as a professional mp3 file.

3. ​Watch a short video guide on how to record with Audacity.

4. ​Pay attention! As mentioned in the video you’ve just watched, Audacity lacks a component that makes it possible to export your recording as an mp3 file. The first time you’d try to do so, Audacity will prompt you with a relevant message and a link to that missing component (lame encoder). Download that component and install it. This should take just a couple of seconds, so no worries about that.

5. Wait for our Skype call... :-)

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At Talk Parrot we will mix your side of the conversation with our side, reduce noises, add some necessary filters, put on some jingles and messages and Voila! Another episode/lesson is ready!

 

Thanks for helping us improve.