Write and Record a Spoken Word Piece
Step 1: Listen to some great examples of spoken word pieces. This can be anything from an audio play to a spoken word piece to a personal rant. Here are a few, but don't limit yourself to these.
Spoken Word:
Audio Play (click the speaker to stream—you don't have to buy): This American Life.
Step 2: Write your piece. Test it out on your friends and family and ask for edits. Get used to the sound of your own voice, because you're going to hear it a lot!
Step 3: Record your piece, edit it, and clean up the audio. Get the audio recording into your computer, get rid of the mistakes, and optimize the audio using techniques like noise reduction, EQ, and reverb—whichever is appropriate. See Activity 3/Step 4 for a refresher if you need it.
Step 4: Add music and/or sound effects on new tracks. Record your own music and/or sound effects and add them where you want them. See Activity 3/Step 4 for a refresher. This video will also help you get the principles of mixing tracks together down.
Step 5: Mix your tracks together. If you need help figuring out how to make the music and effects fit in at the right level with the vocal audio, check out this video about how to use the envelope tool in Audacity.
Step 6: Export and upload to FreshBrain. Once you finish your piece, export it in a common audio format (mp3, wav, aiff, wma) and upload it to FreshBrain.
Step 7 (optional, for the real world): Make your piece into a podcast. You need to decide on a service to host your podcast on the web, for example:
PodBean
Check out this video for the details (the most relevant parts start around 4:15):