Livre d'Or

A few months ago I needed to record a few voice clips of myself. I didn't get good results from any microphone I already had, but I bought a basic USB headset (Logitech PC 960, for £20-odd) and that seems to work fine.

As it happens the voice clips in question are only for my own use (they're part of a script which organises my exercise routine by shouting at me when I need to change over to the next thing I do), but I'd have no hesitation in using the same recording setup for something other people were going to hear :-)

For the software side, I'm currently using Audacity. (On Linux, though if I remember rightly it runs on all sorts of platforms.) That suits my use case well because it makes it easy to record each voice clip several times, play them all back, cut out the one I liked best, gain-adjust it to the right volume and save just that part as a wav file. I suppose if I were going to do any kind of longer thing, I'd probably need to automate that lot a little better.