Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
As you can see in the left side of
Figure 15-1
, I have
recorded
the spoken word
“
left
,” and used the Audacity
selection tool
to select only that portion of the recording
session, seen in a darker gray shade, that contains the audio data. Since you can see the
digital audio waveform representation in the Audacity waveform editing area, you can
see the portion of your recording where the data that you just recorded is contained.
The portion of your audio recording that does not contain any digital audio data will
just look like a straight line.
Figure 15-1
.
Launch Audacity, record your voice saying the word “left,” and then select the wave and Export Selec-
tion
The fastest way to get only the raw digital audio data, which is all that we really
want inside of our .WAV file anyway, and is the only data that we want to be optimiz-
ing using Audacity, is to use the
File Export Selection
menu sequence. This will
allow us to directly write the selected audio data into the
left.wav
file using the WAVE
PCM digital audio format. After we do this, we can then start a new Audacity editing
session and simply open up that file and start the digital audio content optimization
process.
After you use the Export Selection menu option in Audacity, you will get the
Ex-
port File
dialog, which is shown in
Figure 15-2
. Type
left
in the
File name:
field, seen
in the bottom of the dialog, and click the
Save
button.
