How To Make A Voice Wav

After your have installed Goldwave, open the program. Click on 'open' to browse to your mp3.

You can also go to 'file/open'.

More than one MP3 can be converted at a time using the 'batch conversion'. More on this later.

Browse to the folder where you store your MP3's and select one to convert and compress. Click on 'open'.

A window will pop up saying, 'deflashing to disk'.

You can play your MP3 by selecting, 'tools/device controls' and clicking on the green 'play' arrow:

Select 'file/save as'.

In the top 'save in' box, select the folder, from the drop down menu, where you wish to save your wav.

Next, in the 'file name' box, name your wav.

In the 'save as type' box, select 'wave (*.wav)' from the drop down menu.

In the 'file attributes' window, select 'MPEG Layer-3 32kBit/s, 16,000 Hz, Mono'. If you have installed Lamewin correctly, you will find this attribute a little more than half way down the list.

This selection will give you good sound and compression without losing too much quality. Since it is a compressed wav some quality is lost but due to the limitations of the Comic Chat program, this works best because less compressed wavs sometimes freeze or even crash cchat, and more often than not are not heard by other chatters.

Now before you click on 'save', click on 'set custom'. This will allow you to quickly select the correct attributes for subsequent wav's that you want to convert and compress. Next time, you will only have to click on 'custom' to select the same attributes.

Now click on 'save'. A window will pop up saying 'converting and saving'. The next window to pop up will say, 'File has been converted and saved to disk. Update the Sound window with the new format?' Click on yes.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this tutorial, it is possible to convert and compress more than one MP3 at a time.

Select 'file/batch conversion', and the window shown on the right will pop up. Click on 'add files' and browse to where you have your MP3 files stored. Select as many files as you want to convert.

Once again your 'file type' will be 'Wave(*.wav)' and your'attributes' will be 'MPEG Layer-3 32kBit/s, 16,000 Hz, Mono'. Select your 'destination folder' by clicking on the yellow file folder and browsing to where you want to place your newly converted and compressed wav's. No author or copyright information is necessary. If you do NOT check 'overwrite existing files', you will be prompted if there is a duplicate file in the destination folder.

Click on 'begin'.

You must have a microphone to make a voice wav. Make sure that your windows volume control is not set to mute the microphone. To access the volume control for Windows, click on the 'speaker' icon in your task bar or using Goldwave, go to 'tools/volume control'.

To make a voice wav click on 'file/new' or click on the 'new' icon.

Click on 'voice'.

The default length for a voice wav is one minute. If you want to make it longer, enter a new time in the 'Length' box. According to the help files,"GoldWave requires that the recording time be known in advance so that sufficient resources can be pre-allocated. This results in higher quality recordings with less pops and clicks because resources do not have to be allocated on-the-fly."

Click on 'ok'.

Once you have clicked on 'ok', the window shown on the right will appear.

To open the device controls, needed for recording your voice wav, go to 'tools/device controls'.

Choose this button to select device control properties. Under the volume tab, make sure that all boxes are selected. Adjust the volume levels by sliding the bars to either the right for more volume or to the left for less.

To record a sound, hold down the 'ctrl' key and press the record button: Speak into your microphone and click on the record button when you have finished recording your wav to stop the recording.

To hear your sounds, click on the play button:

It is likely that your voice wav is not one minute long and you will have to edit. Place your cursor at the end of the sounds as shown in the image at the right. Right click.

Go to 'edit/trim'.

By going to effects, it is possible to change the volume of your wav or to add special effects such as voice distortion. You can have lots of fun playing with this feature.

Now is the time to save your voice wav. In the 'save in' box, use the drop down menu to browse to where you want to save your wav.

Name your wav in the 'file name' box.

In the 'save as type' box, select wave *.wav.

Finally you need to set your 'file attributes'. If you have 'set custom', which i previously spoke of, click on 'custom' and your attributes will be set. Click on 'save'.

If you have not pre-set custom attributes, use the drop down menu to select 'MPEG Layer-3 32kBit/s, 16,000 Hz, Mono', as shown in the image here. Click on 'save'.

To review how to set custom attributes, click here.

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