Hello Carol, As I know that you already have GoldWave, I would recommend that you use it for this purpose. For voice recordings, you could either record your poems onto cassette and transfer this to your hard disk with GoldWave or you could simply record them straight to hard disk with your standard computer mic. I don't know how much Web space is available to you, but if not much, I would suggest that you should record in mono and convert the WAV file to an MP3 file at, say, 32 bit. You can probably get away with a slightly lower bit rate but you may start to hear loss of quality. If you have plenty of Web space, you might want to go for an MP3 bit rate of 64. You could then use such as FTP Explorer to upload these MP3 files to the server. You can get FTP Explorer free from: www.ftpx.com HTH, John. Author of From The Keyboard Tutorials for Visually Impaired Computer Users To view my tutorials, please visit my Website at: Website: http://web.onetel.com/~fromthekeyboard Tel: 0113 2575957 E-mail: jwjw@xxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:39 PM Subject: [access-uk] RECORDINGS FOR WEB SITE Hi all, I have been asked to produce a voice recording of some of my poems on our ECHURCH-UK WEB site and have no experience of doing this. Well, I do have some experience in recording and editing straightforward items, which these would be, but am not sure what quality I should aim at and what type of file I should produce and whether I should record externally from the computer or just use the headset with boom microphone which I have for daily telephony programmes. Any help or advice would be most welcome. Thanks. -- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 14/02/2005 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 14/02/05 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq