Knowing how to work with audio files is a useful skill for creating presentations, podcasts, or multimedia projects. This tutorial demonstrates the basics of using Audacity—a free, open-source program—to record an audio track, make simple edits to it, and export it as an mp3 file.

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Credits: Images 1–2: © Karen Lynn Steele. Images 3 and 10–11: Digital Vision/Media Bakery. Images 4–5 and 7–8: Spring, 2003, mixed media collage © Karen Lynn Steele. Photo © Karen Lynn Steele. Images 6 and 9: © 2014 Macmillan, Photo by Caroline Thompson. Videos 1–2: © 2014 Macmillan, Video by Caroline Thompson.

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