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 One of the many digital audio editing programs is Audacity  .
 * //Digital Audio Editing //**

Audacity   is a free, easy-to-use software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. The latest stable release is Audacity 1.2.6, although a 1.3.6. Beta version is also offered. Its main features include: live audio recording; conversion of tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs; cutting, copying, splicing or mixing sounds together; speed or pitch change; effects such as echo, phaser, wahwah, reverse, and background noise removal; frequency and volume adjustment; sound quality improvement, etc.  To download Audacity   for Microsoft Windows, click: [] 

This is an example of what Audacity   can do: Original version: media type="file" key="EDT630_Audio_Original.mp3"

Edited version: media type="file" key="EDT630_Audio_Edited.mp3"

In this example I followed these editing steps: ·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I selected and deleted portions not needed (like clearing throat noise, or little coughing, clicking of mouse, banging noise, or badly recorded). <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I silenced the start and the end portions. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I did not like how the last sentence sounded, so I recorded it again (it appeared as a second track), cut it from the second track and pasted it on the original track. Then I deleted the previous version, and the second track. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Between 5.0 s and 6.0 s, there was a very tiny click sound, which I tried to remove by using cross fade out and cross fade in. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The extra “a” sound between 10.0 s and 11.0 s was deleted. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I added a bass boost effect to give depth to the sound recording. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I added a little echo effect to the first and last sentence to give emphasis (not too much as to make it not understandable). <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I applied equalization to the whole sound recording. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I applied phaser effect to the portion that mentions examples of effects, just to add an extra “dramatic” effect. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I exported the file as mp3.