The small booth is a dedicated recording station. It has a boom-mounted mic that is always connected to Hyoid, a linux computer. Hyoid can be fully controlled either from within the booth or from the admin workstation to the left. This is intended to allow things like self recording or guided recording of a consultant.
This guide will help you:
Click on red circle icon near the top of the screen to start recording
Command | Button |
---|---|
Record | |
Pause | |
Stop |
Click on the Pause button to pause the recording temporarily
Click on the Square icon to Finish your recording
Go to the Files
menu
Select Export Audio...
Once you’re in the Export Audio window you need to do 3 things
Record
to start recordingStop
to stop recording Save to list
4Save
menu at the top of the screen and clicking Save as a 32 bit .WAV
Save
. The lab machines are backed up every night at 10pm, but your files will only be kept if they are in the Documents folder. Be sure to create a folder for yourself.
The easiest way to get data from a lab machine to your own computer is a flash drive. There are several drives that belong to the lab and can be used to transfer data to your laptop: please do not take any of these drives out of the lab.
originally by Jamison Nielsen and Kevin McGowan, November 3 2016 ↩
Rather than being summarily deleted, which is what will happen if you leave it on the desktop. ↩
Praat can record audio and has a nice interface for monitoring recording levels (making sure you have a nice, clear signal that is not clipping) but we recommend recording with Audacity because it is more difficult to lose your recording data before it can be saved when recording with Audacity. ↩
Be careful with the Save to list and close
option. It is possible, if something goes wrong at this point, to lose recorded data this way. To be safe you should click Save to list
, make sure it gets added to Praat’s object list, write the object out to a wav file, and then close the recording window. ↩