Archive for September, 2011

postheadericon Ideas for Making Audio Information Products



You can boost both the sales of products from your website and the traffic that your website receives by putting audio recordings in your information products. You will be able to gain the trust of your customers and thus build good working relationships with them simply by allowing them to hear your voice. Instead of being some online stranger, you will become a familiar voice to them.

For many people, downloading a digital product is a great modern convenience that certainly beats out having to wait for a physical product to arrive at their home in the mail. You can take advantage of this desire for instant gratification downloading by adding audio recordings to the information products you sell by means of your website.

You could link an MP3 of your audio recording to your webpage or upload directly to your website so that visitors can download your recorded audio clips in this way. If you choose the MP3 route, your customers will be able to put your recording on a CD or their MP3 player and take it with them wherever they want.

Using a simple service like Audio Acrobat (audioacrobat.com) is one of the many easy ways to record audio clips. This service, which charges twenty dollars each month, gives you a phone number to call and then records what you say over the phone. Internet microphones and webcams can also be utilized.

The Audio Acrobat service makes audio publishing quite an easy process. You can stream your recorded audio on your website by inserting some HTML code. Customers can also download your audio if you place an additional link on the page, which will allow them to listen to it however they want, whenever they want.

Podcasting, a popular new practice that is similar to blogging, is also easy to do with Audio Acrobat. Podcasts, which broadcast a voice instead of just words, can be made on any imaginable topic. RSS feeds, which Audio Acrobat can handle, allow listeners to download podcasts. iTunes integration is also made possible with Audio Acrobat so that podcasts auto-load into iTunes.

Podcasts do not require that someone have iTunes or an iPod, however. Podcasts can be listened to over the Internet or on pretty well any MP3 player.

Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) is another audio recording option. This is a free recording software that uses an internet microphone and allows you to edit and mix the recorded sounds.

postheadericon Motivational Video Clips



The intensification of clip culture has lead to the evolution of audio and video clips. Clip culture refers to Internet viewing and sharing of short videos. The popularity of video clips has grown manifold thanks to the growing clip culture. Video clips are streamed video segments and clippings often excerpted from larger videos. They have duration of less than fifteen minutes and show particular moments of significance or noteworthiness from the original video. Video clips are often streamed from news recordings, movies, music videos, and television serials. Video clips help promising camera operators, producers, and video developers to enhance their careers.

Motivational video clips are based on the aspect of inspiring viewers to give stimulus to a particular courageous behavior. These video clips are generally derived from award winning documentaries, motivational films, courageous stories, and motivational speeches. Some of them may be based on interviews of admired personalities who have inspired many individuals all over the nation through their work. Motivational video clips help to stretch the thinking and working capacity of individuals to achieve desired goals by making complete use of their potential. Many motivational speakers employ video producers to develop video clips to encourage the audience to think positively and be confident about their talent.

Motivational video clips are viewed by a large number of people who need a change in their thinking and mode of behavior to achieve better results and improve their lifestyle on the whole.

Motivational video clips are available in different formats on the Internet and a few other sources. The video format of the video clip may range from MPEG and AVI to MOV and WMV formats, and can be viewed using most of the common media players. A large collection of motivational video clips can be availed of online at different websites and can be downloaded free of charge. Some websites may however charge for the download depending on the quality and popularity of the video clip.

postheadericon Take An Audio Course In American English



When you take an online course to help you learn English, although the rules of grammar are the same, it is important to recognize the difference between American English and British English. If you want to immigrate to the United States or Canada or do work with businesses in these countries, then you should learn the proper American form of the language. The main difference in American and British English is in how some words are spelled and specific vocabulary words.

In an online course, look for the type of language that it focuses on. A free audio course using American spelling and vocabulary as well as the pronunciations of the words is an important component of the course. This way you will learn how to enunciate the vowels and pronounce words the way a native speaker in North America would do so. In order to access an audio course, you do need to have Macromedia Flash installed on your computer, but since you can get this free online, you won’t incur any cost in taking a free course.

The topics covered in such an audio course include conversation starters in which you learn how to introduce yourself and talk about yourself. Other topics include getting around a city, making travel arrangements having a telephone conversation and writing essays and research papers. They also include short snippets of conversations that college students would have with one another and short talks on various subjects.

You can read each of the passages silently as you follow along with the native speaker. You can then practice reading the same passage aloud and record your speech. This allows you to compare with how well you pronounce the words and your rate of fluency with that of the speaker. Finally, there is an exercise on the passage in which you answer a series of multiple-choice questions to show that you understand the material presented in the passage. Thus, taking an audio course will give you the skills you need in listening, speaking and reading.

When you take advantage of a free English course, you will learn the rules of grammar. This course is presented in a series of lessons, each of which has a listening, speaking, reading and writing component. All the key structures are presented in relevant dialogues and sentences and in context rather than isolation so that you see how the words are used in relation to the rules. These come with instructions and practice exercises to help you succeed.

If you do need extra help, you can choose to pay a personal tutor for an hour or more directly from the site. This tutor will help you with any aspect of learning English with which you are having problems. You don’t have to sign up for regular services and can choose a tutor only when you need one. If you are taking classes at a school, using the free online courses will give you extra practice and resources to help you become an English speaker even more quickly.