Four women, four languages

We hear English, Persian, French, and either Cantonese or Mandarin. Nice teamwork!

The team made this recording using the free Odeo account I set up for the session. Odeo provides a very basic online voice recorder - a start and stop button with no opportunity for editing. While this gives you almost no flexibility, the good news is that Odeo provides free unlimited hosting and distribution of your recordings. So you can record using Odeo, and then put the link to the audio file in whatever blog or webpage you like. It’s working for me now!

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/0/7/267407.mp3

Four women, four languages – Round two

We hear English, Persian, French, and either Cantonese or Mandarin. Nice teamwork, again!

We all, myself included, thought that something had gone wrong with Odeo, that it had not recorded and stored their first effort. But there was no problem after all.

I’m impressed by how similar the two recordings are! You’d think they were following a script.

This recording was also made with the Odeo account and stored on their servers.

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/0/7/267407.mp3

Tanya, Mike, Tara and Susan

Also recorded using Odeo’s online recorder

They each introduce themselves and then Susan plays with the microphone a little, moving it farther from and nearer to her mouth.

This recording was made with the same Odeo account.

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/1/5/267415.mp3

Tanya, Mike, Tara and Susan – Round two

Much like our multilingual foursome above, it seemed like the recording had not been saved when in fact it had. Here is their round two.

Also recorded using Odeo's online recorder

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/1/5/267415.mp3

There were three people in the group, one of them was named Hakima I presume

They made this recording using the free PodOmatic account. They were the only group to try this option. I can understand that. PodOmatic and Odeo offer the same functionality, but with Odeo you get all free the bandwidth (number of downloads) you might want. PodOmatic provides very little free bandwidth.

Thanks to these three for trying PodOmatic out!

http://www.bibliopod.com/BCLAcast/Hakimastestpod.mp3

Another by Hakima’s team

Here is another by Hakima, Jim and their trusty teammate whose name I cannot catch.

The team made this recording using the free Odeo account I set up for the session. As I said above, Odeo provides a very basic online voice recorder - a start and stop button with no opportunity for editing. While this gives you almost no flexibility, the good news is that Odeo provides free unlimited hosting of your audio files. So you can record using Odeo, and then put the link to the audio file in whatever blog or webpage you like. It’s working for me now!

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/0/8/267408.mp3

A quick test of Odeo

Leslie and her partner (Adrianne?) quickly test out the process of recording

http://media.odeo.com//files/4/2/1/267421.mp3

Podcasting over the phone

Aubri interviews her teammates, Pamela and Derek. Then Pamela interviews Aubri.

These three phoned in their recording. Telephoning in your recordings, leaving what feels like a lot like a voice mail message, is another of the ways that Odeo provides for people to create and post their podcasts.

While I am thrilled with the content here - they interviewed each other - as you will hear, the quality of the recording is not very good. I think this likely had to do mostly with the phone, because the next two recordings, also phoned in, were less rough.

http://www.audblog.com/media/114050/345570.mp3

Janis, Donald and Jean over the phone

These three introduce themselves and then Janis does a practice promotion of the teen summer reading club.

This recording was made over the phone. It sounds better than the interview, above, but it still isn’t something you would want likely want to send out to library users.

http://www.audblog.com/media/114050/345576.mp3

A little flattery

An unidentified woman tells us that I gave an ‘amazing’ (I’m just quoting!) session on podcasting.

This recording was made over the phone and it actually sounds OK. Not good enough for really wide spread distribution, but better than the two above.

http://www.audblog.com/media/114050/345579.mp3