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Help!

I have recorded some preparation for French speaking exams for my students in .mp3 format (using Audacity). However, I cannot send them, as the file size exceeds 10mb ... they're about 11-12mb. Is there anything I can do to compress them, as I really don't want to go back to re-record them.

Thanks!

In reply to judith_sw: Try opening them in audacity and then saving them as a lower quality mp3. Maybe 128bps if its spoken word.

In reply to judith_sw:

.mp3 files are already a compressed format.

The best thing to do is to save them initially as a wav file, uncompressed, and then export as an .mp3 using a lower bit-rate eg. 96Kb instead of 128Kb

I tried downloading Audacity at home earlier, but it wouldn't work - I did the recordings at school. I'll have another go!

In reply to judith_sw:


Just make sure you change the filename if you try exporting at a lower quality, so you can go back to the original if you need to...

In reply to Dominion:
I use 64kbps mono all the time for logging speech and it's more than adequate. Remember 128kbps stereo is effectively 64kbps per channel for an interlaced file.

In reply to judith_sw:
You can comfortably go down to 32kbps for mono voice. Well I do anyway.

In reply to judith_sw:

Another option is to split the files into smaller chunks, audacity is purpose built for this kind of thing.

In reply to judith_sw: When you say 'send'i assume you eman email. if so you could always just get a Gmail account where the attachment limit is 25mb. migh be abit faster than esampling all the files.