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If you have noticed, a lot of sites these days add streaming audio to their
sites.
Those ubiquitous buttons that resemble little orbs with the play
symbol on them? I'm sure you must have seen them.
A lot of marketers
these days allow their site visitors to hear their sales pitch, or perhaps a
testimonial this way.
Before the advent of Macromedia Flash 6, the only
way to stream audio was using real audio player which required users to download
their bulky software, not to mention a webserver that supported
streaming.
The advantage of streaming audio is that visitors don't have
to wait for the whole sound file to download before they can listen to it. Thus
with streaming audio the playback is almost instantaneous.
Using flash 6
it is very easy to create these buttons that stream the audio from your website
to the users browser.
A great flash tutorial on how to make these buttons
is available at
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Audio/Flash_MX-Kenny_Be-824/index.php
Now
the question is how do you record your voice and keep the file size small
enough?
If you were to make a recording of your voice with the "Windows
Sound Recorder" that was 60 seconds long and save it, it would be 1.26 mb .wav
in size.
But you can reduce this to only 117 kb if you made it a .mp3
file instead. Here's how to do it.
Open sound Recorder by going to
Start/Programs/Accessories/Entertainment for (Windows 98)
Open sound
Recorder by going to Start/Programs/Accessories/Multimedia for (Windows 95)
Press the "Record button" to start the recorder.
As you're
speaking into the microphone your sound recorder should have a voice pattern.
After you're done press the "Stop button".
To hear your recording
press the "Play button".
Next Click "File/Save As from the menu enter
your file name and then click the "Change button".
Another window opens
up.
Here For "Format" click the "Drop down button" and select "MPEG
Layer-3".
For "Attributes" click the "Drop down button" and select
16 kBits/s, 12,000 Hz Mono 2KB/s.
Click OK.
Click Save and
you see the conversion of the file to a .mp3
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About The Author: Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc, a software solutions provider, who specialize in affordable customized software solutions, Security and Internet marketing software. This article may be reprinted provided the resource box is kept intact.
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