Comments from those who selected Audacity as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2008
"a wonderful user-friendly resource bringing
podcasting to the people"
Bill Miller
"open source Audio editing in
an easy way. Gorgeous tool for all "sound experiments"
Andreas
Busing
"Audacity is still the best application I have found
for simple recording and editing of audio. It just
works."
Jennifer
Maddrell
"Audio is a
versatile option for an elearning. With the free Audacity
tool it is easy to produce, edit and publish audio as an MP3
or other file formats."
Steve Rayson
"Audacity gave the PC
community similar capabilities to Mac's GarageBand
at no cost. I like having the ability to review
and edit audio before I package it for podcasting" Britt
Wattwood
"Audacity
is easy to use for recording and editing sound files. It
is a handy program for creating podcasts, especially for beginners in this area.
"
Patricia Donaghy
"Free and easy to create
classroom podcasts and mp3s where the students get to
hear, edit and publish themselves. Promotes ownership –
extremely motivating."
Kora Stoll
"In
the past I used Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge, but
Audacity does everything I need. The large library of plugins add all
the functionality I think I might ever need. It’s free
and open source too" Charles
Jennings
"I found it
is very useful for sound editing. It supports variety of
features for audio editing at no cost."
N B
Venkateswarlu
"Use this all the
time for audio, no other tool is as good"
Phil Bradley
"Why spend limited
funds on a commercial tool that won't do all this free
one does?"
Ed Lamaster
"A great free (open
source) tool for creating and editing audio files."
Pattie
Mascaro
"Although
I don’t use it very often, any time it comes to
manipulating sound it quickly does the job." Kevin Jones
"Extremely useful and easy-to-use tool for editing
audio. I have found it invaluable in the various
multimedia projects I've worked on in college this year.
I use the noise removal filter for reducing static on
voiceovers that were recorded directly using the built
in mic on my laptop - handy if you dont have a fancy
audio recording booth. Of course using this method, you
won't have superb audio quality, but for less
formal requirements such as creating audio for college
projects, it's ideal."
Karen OBrien
"Amazingly powerful for such a small program. I use
it almost everyday, even though I have access to much
more powerful audio editing software packages."
Jason Edwards
"a well focussed tool that academics
and student can pick up easily. It's very portable and
this is important for digital audio where many users
want to work in private spaces"
Andrew
Middleton
"This easy to use FREE audio editing software is easy to
use for podcasting and editing audio files. You will need the
LAME Mp3 encoder if you want to export your audio files at
MP3 instead of WAV - but it’s easy to download and install"
Colette
Cassinelli
"I
use this tool whenever there is a requirement for
audio recording or editing. It is such a useful tool
and it's free!" Sathish
Narayanan
"I recommend this open source tools to subject
matter experts who wish to create podcasts and / or
software demos when using a Rapid E-Learning approach.
It's easy to install and use and enables SMEs and
training professionals to create high quality audio
quickly and efficiently."
Michael
Hanley
"I’m starting to
do much more with audio, and Audacity really is a pretty
incredible piece of free software."
Jeff Cobb
" Free and powerful audio recorder and editor. Works
with MP3's though you will need to download a copy the
LAME MP3 encoder which will allow Audacity to import and
export MP3 files."
Rupert
Russell
Comments from those who selected Audacity as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2007
"open source Audio editing in
an easy way."
Andreas
Busing
"fabulous free software for recording
podcasts"
Don Taylor
"One of the best (free) audio tools
out there"
B J Schone
"Audio is a versatile
option for an elearning. With the free Audacity tool
it is easy to produce, edit and publish audio as an
MP3 or other file formats."
Steve Rayson
"Though I use iTunes to
manage my music, this is only because it works well
with my iPod. And I use an iPod only because my
iRiver was smashed and can't be replaced. My real
audio application - the tool I use to create, edit
and convert audio files - is Audacity. What I like
is the ability to work in multiple file formats, to
record long chunks of content, easy editing and
content filtering (including noise removal) and to
output in small MP3 files."
Stephen
Downes
"while there are other great audio
programs, you cannot beat the functionality for the
price!"
Audrey
Williams
"A robust sound recording/editing
tool and it is open source."
Guy Boulet
"In
the past I used Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge, but
Audacity does everything I need. The large library
of plugins add all the functionality I think I might
ever need. It’s free and open source too."
Charles
Jennings
"This
easy to use FREE audio editing software is easy to use
for podcasting and editing audio files. You will need
the LAME Mp3 encoder if you want to export your audio
files at MP3 instead of WAV - but it’s easy to download
and install."
Colette
Cassinelli
"I adore free stuff – this is a sound
recorder and precision editor – nothing more,
nothing less"
Phil Green
"easy, functional audio recording
tool for podcasting"
Nick Hood
"a tool that is
free and easy to download and use to record students"
Ramona
Dietrich
"A free
tool from SourceForge.net, I use this to edit podcasts and
convert audio files"
Michael McVey
"Educational content delivery is
greatly simplified when one does not have to worry about
the receiver's ability to open it. With .pdf, I know that
students will be viewing my files precisely the way
I want the content viewed."
Britt Watwood
"i never imagined i'd be able to edit audio files,
especially on the run - this program can be run from
a portable drive, eg usb stick, or even from the
iRiver that recorded audio with internal microphone
.. open source."
Michael Chalk
"I am a big
believer in open source tools and this one does
everything the expensive programs do."
Susan Quinn
