|
|
|
Are Audio Books Expensive?
Are audio books expensive? Well, it’s a tough question. What kind of audio books – downloaded audio books, audio books on CD or books on tape, which titles? And compared to what – the old fashioned book or to other audio titles? Let us examine the...
Great Audio Gift Ideas -- Big Sound, Small Price Tags
(ARA) – It’s that time of year again. Time to go shopping for holiday gifts, and this year, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) expects an estimated 78-percent of Americans to purchase electronics.
Kate Connors, resident audio expert at...
NaturalGasStocks.com Updates “Online Investor Audio Forum”, Analysts from C. K. Cooper & Company and Peters and Company Provide Investor Insight
NaturalGasStocks.com Updates “Online Investor Audio Forum”, Analysts from C. K. Cooper & Company and Peters and Company Provide Investor Insight
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta, B.C, November 9th 2004 - NaturalGasStocks.com (NGS), a global...
Seizures at IBC show to enforce MPEG Audio patents
Amsterdam, September 13, 2005 - SISVEL obtained an order from the District Court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to seize the set-top-boxes displayed at the IBC show by a number of companies not licensed under the MPEG Audio patents.
SISVEL S.p.A....
Why Audio Books?
Are you keen on reading, but there's always shortage of time?
Do you always have to choose between household duties and a new book of your favourite writer?
Are you a car driver, who thinks that reading while driving is impossible?
Is your...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increasing sales by adding streaming audio to your site for Free
If you have noticed, a lot of sites these days add streaming audio to their sites.
Those ubiquitous buttons that resemble little orbs with the play symbol on them? I'm sure you must have seen them.
A lot of marketers these days allow their site visitors to hear their sales pitch, or perhaps a testimonial this way.
Before the advent of Macromedia Flash 6, the only way to stream audio was using real audio player which required users to download their bulky software, not to mention a web server that supported streaming.
The advantage of streaming audio is that visitors don't have to wait for the whole sound file to download before they can listen to it. Thus with streaming audio the playback is almost instantaneous.
Using flash 6 it is very easy to create these buttons that stream the audio from your website to the users browser.
A great flash tutorial on how to make these buttons is available at
http://www.flashkit.com utorials/Audio/Flash_MX-Kenny_Be-824/index.php
Now the question is how do you record your voice and keep the file size small enough?
If you were to make a recording of your voice with the "Windows Sound Recorder" that was 60 seconds long and save it, it would be 1.26 mb .wav in size.
But you can reduce this to only 117 kb if you made it a .mp3 file instead. Here's how to do it.
Open sound
Recorder by going to Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment for (Windows 98)
Open sound Recorder by going to Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia for (Windows 95)
Press the "Record button" to start the recorder.
As you're speaking into the microphone your sound recorder should have a voice pattern.
After you're done press the "Stop button".
To hear your recording press the "Play button".
Next Click "File/Save As from the menu enter your file name and then click the "Change button".
Another window opens up.
Here For "Format" click the "Drop down button" and select "MPEG Layer-3".
For "Attributes" click the "Drop down button" and select
16 kBits/s, 12,000 Hz Mono 2KB/s.
Click OK.
Click Save and you see the conversion of the file to a .mp3
All done !!
Now all you have to do is pass this mp3 as the source to the flash file and you have instant audio on your site.
About the Author
About The Author
Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc.
If you want to know more about how to add audio to your website, check out our free ebook that has lots of resources and tips on recording, software, free professional voice overs and also includes a set of free flash buttons that you can use to stream audio at no cost.
http://www.novasoft-inc.com/ebook.asp
|
|
|
|
|
| Yahoo! Search - Audio Search |
| Submit your audio content - including podcasts - to Audio Search with Media RSS ... Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, ... |
| audio.search.yahoo.com |
|
| AltaVista - Audio Search |
| Search for MP3s, WAVs and streaming audio files on the web and on FTP sites. |
| www.altavista.com |
|
| Rhapsody & RealPlayer — the best audio and video players — Real.com |
| The standard for audio and video streaming online. |
| www.real.com |
|
| SuperPass — premium audio and video programming — Real.com |
| RealNetworks cross-platform multimedia player. Supports RTSP/RTP with H.261, u-Law, a-law, MP3, DVI. [Client] |
| www.real.com |
|
| The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio |
| List of major online audio resources; part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK. |
| archive.museophile.org |
|
| More audio reports | Audio archive | Guardian Unlimited |
| Special report: Europe's far right. More audio reports ... Audio, 'It will achieve a great deal of injustice' February 17, video: The Conservative candidate ... |
| www.guardian.co.uk |
|
| Internet Archive: Audio Archive |
| Non-English language collections contributed to the Open Source Audio collection ... You are invited to view or upload audios to the Open Source collection! ... |
| www.archive.org |
|
| M-AUDIO |
| Manufacturers of MIDI and audio devices for the PC or Mac. Product catalog, company information, news and support center. |
| www.m-audio.com |
|
| Audio - Salon |
| Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events. |
| www.salon.com |
|
| Audio Engineering Society |
| The leading professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry. Extensive and well maintained site, including online member ... |
| www.aes.org |
|
| Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| HyperPhysics: Sound and Hearing · Audio for the 21st Century · Conversion of sound units and levels · Sounds amazing a learning resource for sound and waves ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
|
| Audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary digital audio format. ... "I hear" in Latin. Audio, magazine covering high fidelity music reproduction. ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
|
| AudioREVIEW.com - Home Audio and Home Theater resource |
| Consumer reviews on home audio and home theater equipment. |
| www.audioreview.com |
|
| CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
| Audio Plug-ins & Assistance. Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 9. Frequently Asked Questions, Frequently Asked Questions. Ogg Vorbis Format ... |
| www.cbc.ca |
|
| CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
| From 7:00 p.m. AT Friday, December 1st to 7:00 p.m. AT Saturday, December 2nd, the Fredericton audio stream will be unavailable due to a power shutdown in ... |
| www.cbc.ca |
|
| Audio - Creative Commons |
| Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s · OYEZ Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, ... |
| creativecommons.org |
|
| Audio Adrenaline |
| Audio Adrenaline is an award winning Christian Rock Band that writes, records, sings and performs songs like Big House with Gospel driven messages to ... |
| www.audioa.com |
|
| Audio Bible Online |
| Audio Bible, The King James Version narrated by Alexander Scourby is on-line. |
| www.audio-bible.com |
|
| Audio - ebaumsworld.com |
| hilarious audio sound files file mp3 mp3s audios. ... Shocking audio of a man getting shot. Tags: ghetto · Blondestar Blondestar ... |
| www.ebaumsworld.com |
|
| AudioFind.com - multimedia internet search |
| Searchable MP3 directory with thousands of files. Browse alphabetically by filename, master artist, or date. |
| www.audiofind.com |
|
|