Using Audacity for ESL: Slowing Down Audio Files

One of the ways that Audacity is useful for language teaching is in the ability to slow down audio files to make them easier to understand. This video demonstrates how to record a news broadcast from NPR and then slow it down for an ESL class.

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Education

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• Audacity
• ESL
• slow
• down
• audio
• track
• English
• Second
• Language
• teaching
• Jack
• Drolet
• jackdrolet
• Central
• Michigan
• University

[dvkngstn]

If you use "change tempo" rather than "change speed" you can slow down or speed up the track without changing the pitch.

[jackdrolet]

Good point - reducing tempo by 15% works well.

[MikeTheGuy00]

Now i know how i can learn songs on guitar! Sweet man thanks!

[PogieJoe]

Thanks! :D

[terminaterjohn]

@dvkngstn omg you're a fucking genius thank you!!!!!!

[dillonvaupel]

This information was VERY helpful- THANK YOU for posting this- we used this information to slow down the audio CD accompiant music for my son's saxophone solo- slowing it 8% made all of the difference in his performance - thank you for sharing this information! :)

[tracemaster100]

the other day i found out how to create a simulated treble track for my old record music using this program. its the best program in my book. 

[TheFirefighter23]

when i click on effects i doesnt let me click anything

[MichaelChin1994]

Tutorial starts at 3:10

[kingg0d]

thank you for the tutorial, really helped me out!

[NikaMonroe1]

Thanx! It Came Out Great!:)

[xWh1t3Dyn4m1t3x]

i found it easier to reduce the speed by -10 and the pitch up by 6 and it seemed to work pretty well

[votaocu]

your name is chatroullete?