Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Researching How to Make Phone Audio and Audacity

I just got the audio from my friend Sean for the phone call section. His audio was extremely clear, and I could hear every little treble and syllable very clearly in his audio. This would be great if I was just doing a voiceover of someone. The problem is that I have to make it sound like a phone call. The audio isn't very good from a phone, so I wanted to have him record clear audio so then I could edit it in a audio software and then put it into my film, so it would sound like a realistic phone call. 

I wish audio files were supported by the blogger input feature. I wanted to show you guys how clear this audio is. Let me search up how to do it. I went to the mother of all tech tutorials, YouTube (of course), and searched up how to upload an audio file into Blogger. I found a YouTube video that used the HTML feature of Blogger. I thought this was really interesting as I also like techy stuff, and I like code. I wanted to try this out. 


So basically, all I have to do to input the audio file into Blogger is to use some HTML code, which is like website code, to import the file from my Google Drive to the Blogger interface. This turned out to be really easy to do. Here's the one of the clear audio files that I got from Sean.

Now that I have my files, I can try to turn it into a phone call sounding audio. I searched up some YouTube tutorials and found this one about Audacity, an audio editing software. I have used Audacity before in one of my classes in school, specifically AICE Information Technology, but I haven't used it for really making effects to the audio before. Here's the video I found.

In the video, it changes the volume of certain frequencies, lowering the extreme ends of the frequency and increasing the middle frequencies. This looks a bit complicated, but I think it yields the best results for a phone call audio. 

Another video that I found had an extremely simple solution to the telephone effect because it literally had a preset effect to make audio sound like its from a telephone. 

It simply went to the effects panel, clicked equalize, and then finally pressed telephone as the selected curve for the audio. This seems a lot simpler, but it would be a lot less effective at making the phone quality audio. I think I might be able to use both audios tutorials to make a really good sounding audio clip. 

I will use Audacity to change the audio, but I think that's it for today. Well, until next time. See ya!

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