In this section, we will discuss the installation of the software you will need to record your audio. Currently, the application of choice is Audacity as it is a fully-featured audio editor that is also cross-platform and freeware. Audacity provides a robust and complete recording and editing solution with a simple interface for the novice user.

Download the most recent stable version, in this case, 1.2.4b. You will also need to download and install the LAME mp3 Encoder so that you can export your recordings to mp3.

Once you have installed Audacity to your computer, open the lame-3.96.1.zip and place the uncompressed folder somewhere that it will not get deleted. Remember where you put this folder as you will need to navigate back to it once you run Audacity for the first time and setup the mp3 export option.

Once you have installed Audacity to your computer, open the LameLib-Carbon-3.91.sit and place the LameLib file somewhere that it will not get deleted. Remember where you put this file as you will need to navigate back to it once you run Audacity for the first time and setup the mp3 export option.