audacity is a free-ware program that allows you to edit audio, record audio and do pretty much anything you want with it.

The following will show some of the features in audacity:



these are the simple buttons in audacity such as play, record and stop.
To record sound to audacity, you do need a microphone that attaches to the jack in the back of your pc.


This is your audio line, as you speak into your microphone, the blue line goes up to signal the strength of what you have recorded.
On the side you have the options to increase the strength of the audio or to weaken if you need too.



This is your edit tool menu, in this you have the typical options to cut,paste and trim audio.



These show the level of audio that is given out through speakers/headphones.


This is the file drop down menu, this allows you to save the project and export the audio out to many audio file formats such as WAV and Mp3.


This are the effects you can use such as fade in change the bass or set it to repeat.


Using audacity you can change pretty much any audio aspects and record multipal voice overs at the same time.

many people use this program to make podcasts for the internet and voice overs in video game reviews.