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  Name Audacity
  Caption Audacity 132 screenshot on Windows XP
  Developer The Audacity Team
  Operating System Cross-platform
  Language Multilingual
  Genre Digital Audio Editor
  License GNU General Public License
  Website http://audacitysourceforgenet/


In Computing , Audacity is a Digital Audio Editor application. Audacity is Cross-platform , using the WxWidgets software Library to provide a similar Graphical User Interface on several different Operating System s.

Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni of Google , while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University . Dominic Mazzoni is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.

The latest stable release of Audacity is 1.2.6, released on and is Licensed under the GNU General Public License , but may upgrade to GPLv3 after version 1.4.0.http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--Audacity-translation--New-GPL.-Now-which-GPL--t4064947.html#a11550030


FEATURES


Some of Audacity's features include:

  • Importing and exporting WAV , AIFF , MP3 (via the LAME MP3 Encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis , and other File Format s

  • Recording and playing sounds

  • Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)

  • Multi-track mixing

  • Digital effects and effect plug-ins. Additional effects can be written with Nyquist

  • Amplitude envelope editing

  • Noise removal

  • Support for multichannel modes with Sampling Rate s up to 100 kHz with 24 bits per sample

  • The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed, while maintaining pitch, in order to synchronise it with video, run for the right length of time, etc.

  • Large array of plug-ins available

  • Multi-platform: works in Microsoft Windows , Linux and Mac OS X , amongst others.



LANGUAGE SUPPORT


In addition to English language help, the ZIP File of the downloadable Audacity software program includes help files for Afrikaans , Arabic , Basque , Bulgarian , Catalan , Chinese (simplified) , Chinese (traditional) , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French , Galician , German , Greek , Hungarian , Irish , Italian , Japanese , Lithuanian , Macedonian , Norwegian ( Bokmål ), Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish , Swedish , Turkish , Ukrainian and Welsh in its user interface. A partial Bengali help file is also included.

The Audacity website also provides Tutorial s in languages other than English.


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