a. Launch Sound Recorder.

b. Prepare Sound Recorder to record sound at 44.100kHz, 16 bit, Mono. (Here's how.)

c. Practice recording and playing back your voice.
You should adjust your microphone volume settings until you have a good range of motion in the volume meter, as you see in the animation to the right.

d. Once you have adjusted your volume settings, delete any test audio you've recorded. To do that, move the position slider all the way to the left. From the 'Edit' menu, select 'Delete after current position'. You should now be able to record onto a "blank slate".

e. To begin recording, click the Record button. Speak the narrative text for slide 1:
"In this module, you will learn to use Microsoft Word’s Envelope wizard to address and print envelopes." When finished, click the stop button.

f. When you are satisfied that the narration quality is good enough, convert it to MP3 format at 24kBits/sec, 22,050 Hz, Mono. (Here's how.) (Note: If you don't have the MPEG Layer 3 codec available in Sound Recorder, you'll have to install the latest version of Windows Media Player. Sorry about that.)

g. Continue using Sound Recorder to make a total of 5 mp3 files. Remember, each time you record a new file, record in high quality PCM format as described in step 2B. Then convert to low quality MP3 as described in step 2f.

File Name	Narrative Text
slide01.mp3	In this module, you will learn to use Microsoft Word’s Envelope wizard to address and print envelopes.
slide02.mp3	To begin, you will need to launch Microsoft Word if it is not already running.
slide03.mp3	From the File menu, select New.
slide04.mp3	At the top of New Documents dialog box, select the Letters & Faxes tab.
slide05.mp3	Select the Envelope Wizard icon, and click the OK button.

h. Upload the 5 mp3 files to your student account.