If your Speakers or Microphone does not appear in the list you need to check the Control Panel (Sounds) in Windows.If you can't see the Device Toolbar, go to the View menu, Toolbars and select Device Toolbar.On the Device Toolbar make sure your Speakers and Microphone are the correct ones.Open Audacity (there should be a shortcut link on the Desktop).Setup: Before you start, you need to check, or nominate, a Microphone and Speakers. If you want to record sound or speech, Audacity is a quick and easy way of recording. If it can't find it it will prompt you to locate it. When you save a file as an MP3 for the first time, Audacity will search for the LAME file. Locate the Lame download and double click to open it.Follow the Wizard and NOTE: where the folder is located that holds the program.Locate the Audacity download and double click to open it.Click the Lame for windows link (at the time of writing it was Lame_v3.99.3_for_Windows.exe).

While you are on the page click the Lame MP3 encoder link (it will take you to a new page).

You need to download the Lame MP3 encoder as well.

Click on the recommended download installer link and download the file (probably to the desktop) (At the time of writing it was version 3.99).

Go to the Audacity website (opens in a new window).

You also need to insert a file (LAME) so you can convert files to MP3.

To install Audacity you need to Download the installation file and run it. In this note we will cover the three basics of Audacity: In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems.

Audacity software for mobile