I didn't say that your honour.........oh yes you did...let me show you!!!

The Lecture

In this weeks lecture we moved onto Audio Media material. We looked at the mulimedia Palette and discussed the role of sound in multimedia in general.

We discussed the problems and the limitations of incorperating audio into our web designs and also looked at the relative file sizes and the effect these huge files can have on the usability of our site.

I had a look at home on some tips and tricks sites on how to incorporate snazzy sounds to my pages and came up with the following links.

Audio link.
Moviewave site

The moviewav site was awesone and i have had some fun trawling through looking for my favourite sound themes.


The Tutorial.

This week we played around with a new piece of software called Audacity. This is a sound editing software package that allows you to record and manipulate audio snippets ready for future use. The sound snippet we had was a recording of two lecturers voices introducing themselves and a nasty crackle within the recording.

Our task (if we wished to undertake it) was to join these introductions and get rid of the crackle to make a smooth sounding track.

Well this was done in matter of a few minutes and then boredome set in. To which i then started fiddling with the various filters and effects to which you could apply to the sound file.

It goes without saying then that i managed to make Daniels voice sound like he was:-

1 On Helium.
2 On Cannabis.
3 On Speed.
4 On the bog (echo and grunts)


So cool then - i can manipulate sound tracks and pretty much make them sound as i like.



Personal Reflection.

What have i learned then. Well i can manipulate sounds and place them into my web space for future use. I went home from the lecture and started recording sounds from around the home and then tweaked them using my evaluation copy of Audacity.

So after a while of fiddling with this i started to wonder about the ethics of this.

What if someone recorded me talking and then manipulated my words and altered my sentences to say something completely different.

I constantly get disclaimers on the phone saying that my conversation is being recorded for customer satisfaction reasons and to provide a better service in the future!

I soon realised that my recorded sentences could be used as evidence in the future if i wasn't carefull. This really worried me.

On researching this i found out that a number of utility companies are using sound recording to illegally trap their customers into contracts with them.

These companies record your conversations and look for keywords such as 'yes' and 'no' and then apply them to statements that they ask to trick you into a new contract.

Again i have found a dark side to the multimedia revolution and all its gains.


It seems that big brother is not only watching you, he is listening to you and recording everything you say too.


I'm off for a crap...........................Why is there a microphone in the bogroll holder i wonder????



ss out.