You’re welcome. I just downloaded audacity to a Mac computer. I want to do
audio editing on the Mac and I need to figure out how audacity works on the Mac
computer.
Victor
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On Dec 4, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Justin Williams <justin.williams2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks,
Victor.
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
Hi Justin:
My focus 40 braille display is set to read contracted braille. The input for
typing is set to type 8.braille. I pan the display manually. I hope that
answers your question.
Working at a radio station will definitely help you prepare for professional
voiceover work. It’s good to have the experience of working at a radio
station every day so that you learn the business and learn all aspects of
Audio editing, radio broadcasting and voiceover work.
Good luck,
Victor
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On Dec 2, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Justin Williams <justin.williams2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Victory, I missed your e-mail.
Is your braille display set on the defaults?
How do you have your settings?
I'm working on voice over stuff right now training on audacity.
I'd like to work at a radio station, also.
Thanks,
Justin
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Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2019 7:41 PM
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
Hello:
I have a focus 40 braille display. It has panning buttons that allow me to
pan the display to the right. By doing so, I am able to read the entire line
or sentence.
I work for a radio station. When I record radio commercials, I often
memorize as much of the script as possible before I record. Memorizing the
script, or at least familiarizing yourself with the script before you record
helps you make the recording sound more natural. But you can also record
line by line, or sentence by sentence and edit out the pauses and other
mistakes later. Doing it that way will also make your recording sound pretty
good. It might not sound as natural to you, but it probably sounds just fine
to the average listener. Besides, those of us with a trained ear can tell
that many recordings are so digitally edited that you can tell that all of
the breaths and pauses have been removed digitally. But that’s OK because it
still sounds good.
Doing voiceovers and editing them properly as an art. Audio editing in
general is an art. When done well, it sounds great. I want to get into
voiceover work and advanced audio editing myself so I can make money.
Someday I hope to do this from my own home studio.
Victor
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On Nov 28, 2019, at 3:21 PM, Sandra Gayer <sandragayer7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
My name is Sandra. I am a Soprano Singer but I undertake a lot of
radio work and voiceover work as well as acting. I only use my
Braillenote to read a script as a back-up, I emboss my scripts as
reading this way makes less noise during a recording. Also, the only
pauses are page turns. If you trip up, slow down. In an audiobook
context, it may even work for a particular character to use pause and
varied speeds.
Justin,
When you say you want to enter the voiceover industry, do you mean
you wish to make money or are you concentrating on getting your
reading technique right first. My email address is
sandragayer7@xxxxxxxxx if you want to talk to me off list.
Very best wishes,
Sandra.
On 11/28/19, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Justin
Some further food for thought to add to the valuable suggestions
already offered. I briefly used a Focus 14 recently - not long
enough to be completely familiar with it. You mentioned going to
next line. I have a vague recollection that there is also an option
to move right, which may resolve the issue you have with new material not
appearing.
Out of interest, there is a competent blind news reader in Australia
who uses JAWS with speech output. She shadows what the screen reader is
saying.
Long ago I tried that technique for a couple of presentations. It
worked, but did not suit the less formal style I wanted. I do like
the NVDA feature where pressing spacebar pauses at the exact spot.
I do envy people who can read Braille quickly enough to read
material directly. When I had access to a Braille display I used it
to prompt me rather than reading from a complete script. Whether
that approach works will depend to some extent on the type of presentation.
Earlier this year I did a series of videos to demonstrate correct
document structure. An approach which worked well for me when
tripping over my tongue was to pause and start the phrase again. I
then went through the recording and edited out the glitches. In
short (five minutes or so) recordings I found that approach less
disruptive than stopping and fixing mistakes. It may get a bit
tedious for longer sessions. That said, Audacity's excellent
labelling facilities may prove useful. At each position where you
need to do some cleaning up, without stopping recording, press
control-m and Enter. By using alt-right arrow you can quickly
locate each point where a correction is needed. I have just checked
and, pleasingly, as material gets deleted subsequent labels move left and
still point to the relevant piece of audio.
Andrew
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin Williams
Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2019 7:13 AM
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
I use JAWS 2019.
Focus 40 blue. Braille display
There could be a setting, I'm just using it on default.
Sometimes, when you go down a line, the braille doesn't appear and
you have to go down again.
Maybe I need to put in on just one sentence per line.
80 gives you more relastate.
Thanks,
Justin
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Hänggi
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 2:50 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: voice over narration
I don't think that there will be much clutter so don't worry.
What screen reader are you using?
It is a long time ago that I've used a Braille display.
I thought at the time that 40 cells were enough, 80 were rather
painful for me over time due to the big movements.
I guess your device has automatic line switching, you might try that.
Don't worry about the pauses, Audacity is quite good at handling
those (truncate silence, crossfade clips, etc.) Also, there's the
punch out command (Shift+D) where you can record over a recent
misttake at the end of the track, where it gives you the ability to
listen to the section before it.
Robert
On 27/11/2019, Justin Williams <justin.williams2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good afternoon,
I'm planning to go into voice overs and am looking for the best way
to read scripts, so I'm assuming that some of you record
narration videos.
Please e-mail me off list as to not clutter it with responses for
the question below.
I have a 40 cell braille display.
If I were to begin narrating audio books, or narration for
professional learning videos for employees, is there a setting I
should change for the most fluid reading, or should I just get an
80 cell braille display.
If you have another strategy, please share with me.
Thanks,
Justin
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Actor
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