Step 3: Record Your Episode
Here you need audio recording software. Use Audacity, a FREE downloadable software from https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ that you could install and start utilizing right away. Its usage is straight forward enough- like just plug in your mic's USB cable, click the red Record button at Audacity and start talking. Once done, click the Stop button (the square shaped one). With a bit of editing, that's all you need to do.
Note: Use the link above, do not go to audacity.com as it's not where the software is. They are not even related.
Also, a YouTube search for How to Use Audacity Audio Recorder should quickly help you out in case you need more assistance- especially for basic editing aspects like Cut, Copy, Paste, Add Music, etc.
For now, the image below shows you the red Record button in Audacity- click it and you are on:
Step 4: Tag your MP3 File
As you export your completed episode, you’ll be prompted to add tags. To export your episode, go to File > Export Audio which will lead you to a browse for file window. Name the file at that time, ensure File Type says MP3. See red arrows in the images below:
File > Export Audio > Save as MP3
Tagging MP3 File
Purpose of Tagging
Tagging allows Apple Podcasts (iTunes) and other platforms to extract information that is needed to correctly categorize your production.
Also, remember those are the keywords search engines would use to understand what the audio file is all about- I don’t think they have pretty accurate decoding "ears" as yet, otherwise, human transcribers would be out of business in no time.
In the next page we'll explore hosting for our podcasts and also conclude on this training with resourceful links for your further guidance if you choose to take this path.
In the meantime, kindly comment on any other FREE (or otherwise) recording software that could probably do a better job. Do you have any experience with Audacity? Please tell us more on the comments comments section below.
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Thanks a lot for dropping by and making those wonderful comments and also for asking quite relevant questions.
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Podcast Duration
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Every podcast session has a topic that it handles for that particular time. By all means, the duration of talk and discussion in that session must be as long as value is being communicated, and after editing, there'll be no moments of fluff or re-emphasizing on things already handled.
This means that whereas it's good to be consistent with a certain range of minutes (global average is 43) one must only make their podcast as long as their audience will not feel like they are really wasting time waiting for points to take in.
Thus 25 minutes of quality content would beat an hour of wordy discussion that really need a lot of filtering to get the points.
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Video and Podcast
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It is quite a brilliant idea to make both an audio only recording simultaneous with video shooting. Once this is edited, the audio becomes the podcast and also "donates" voice over to the video. You could then upload the video to YouTube to grow a channel- and thus increase traffic. You could use text-to-speech also to be auto transcribing text as you speak along.
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You could mention that you have the channel, podcast, and website/blog (for audience who prefer audio-visual, audio, and readable text, respectively).
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Once again, thanks so much.
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Shannon Kamal
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Thanks again.
Thanks so much for dropping by, reading and commenting.
I really appreciate your point because podcasting is a whole lot more involving and kind of strict to a schedule if it's ever going to work. Until one adjusts their program it's be a challenge rather than a blessing.
Though you'll not be using podcasting for sometime, it is worthy to know that audience growth rises exponentially at some point when audio- and video- dimensions are added to strengthen text content.
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