Here are, er, twenty sites you need to visit if you’re serious about using your own audio materials in your classes. Many thanks to Sean Banville from whom this list was blatantly stolen (thanks for all the twitter banter about this, by the way.. go and visit Sean’s site, please).

1. Audacity

This is a fantastic free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It’s available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

2. Myna from Aviary

Enables you to record online. You can use Myna to remix music tracks and audio clips. Apply sound effects and record your own voice or instruments. There’s no need to download anything. it works on Windows, Apple, Linux and other operating systems.

3. ScreenJelly

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can share it via e-mail. This is very easy to use: to start recording, click on the red button on the home page. No need to install or download anything.

4. VoiceThread

Group conversations around images, documents, and videos that you put online. This is a great way to create collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

5. FreeCorder

An easy to use sound recorder. Freecorder 4 makes it easy to save video and audio from the web, and convert to many popular formats. Records anything on your computer and sits in your browser.

6. Fotobabble

Create talking photos in three easy steps: Upload your photo, record your voice and share the result with friends.

7. Blabberize

Upload a photo and placea Blabberize mouth over where you want your photo to talk. Upload a recording and then watch your photo talk.

8. Voki

Create your own avatar and record your message. You can send the result to friends or post on a blog.

9. MP3myMP3

The MP3myMP3 recorder saves any audio you hear on your computer straight to mp3 or wav. Very easy to use.

10. Jing

Snap a picture of your screen. Record video of the onscreen action and then share instantly over the web, IM, email. Jing lets you show people what you are talking about by actually talking to them and sending the images and voice.

11. CamStudio

This is a great way to record visually and orally what you are doing on your desktop and save the results as a video you can send people. Records screen activity from the Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files.

12. Vocaroo

A website that allows you to record a voice message and then allows you to e-mail it to a friend. It says it’s “The premier voice recording service.”

13. JavaSonics

You can record a message using your computer’s mic and send it online as an e-mail.

14. Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Only works for Windows.

15. Free Audio Editor.com

Edit audio files visually; Record audio from a microphone or any other available input device. It only saves as WAV and you need to upgrade (at a cost) for MP3.

16. AVS Audio Editor

Edit your audio files with AVS Audio Editor AVS Audio Editor . Cut, split, merge, record, apply various effects. Save output files to all key audio formats. Only works for Windows.

17. ExpStudio

A sound editing program to edit wav, mp3 or other audio files. It can be used as a music editor, for editing audio files or a quick mp3 edit. Only for Win98/NT/Me/2000/2003/XP or Vista.

18. Drop.io

Record and share whatever you want, however you want and with whom you want using this site.

19. Vaestro.com

Vaestro is audio forum software that you can use on your web site for free. Talk to your friends, host interactive podcasts, or use it like an audio blog. Use it anytime you need to communicate with groups of people small or large.

20. Create your own podcasts

Tips on how to create your own podcasts.


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