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>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:15:29 -0700
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>From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Audacity and digital drop boxes (TBob)

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Right now, we are told that there has been no formal limit set on how 
much we can put into our Blackboard digital drop boxes.  We were 
using a free audio software called "Audacity" for some free-form 
recording assignments where students produced Wav format recordings 
and deposited them in Blackboard digital drop boxes:

"How to Record Your Own Voice using Audacity"
http://www.utm.edu/departments/artsci/modlang/audacity.shtml

The Wav. files are, however quite large, and we were having problems 
making and "exporting" smaller MP3 files using our G3s running either 
Mac OS 9.0.4 or 9.2.2.

Today we found that be adding a "library" called "Lame"

LAME
http://spaghetticode.org/lame/

we can make and export MP3 files which are about one eleventh the 
size of identical Wav files. This should be very helpful to us in the 
long run.  They also pass quickly through email if professors prefer 
a primitive situation.

TBob
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Robert D. Peckham, PhD
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
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