Recording your voice with a PC
1. According to my limited research (ie. this is what I do on my PC), the sound recorder is to be located under Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment. It's called "Sound Recorder" just to make sure. If it's not there on your PC, search for it using Start Menu > Find > Files or Folders.

2. Prepare your voice by coughing slightly and possibly doing a small hum. Click the little red circle, and let your words of wisdom flow. When you have finished, click the button with the black square. Hey presto, your voice is recorded. You can hear yourself by clicking the button with the single black arrow.

3. Realise you sound like a dork and make several more attempts to record your voice sounding more sauve/sexy/less like a hippo.

4. When you are happy with your sound, go to File > Save As and save the file as yourname.wav in the folder of your choice.

5. Now you can merrily attach this file to an email and send it off to Voice of the TM where I will helpfully convert it to an mpeg for you and put it up on the site.

6. Alternatively, if you have the software available to record mpegs or convert your wav into an mpeg, I would be most grateful. I've been converting wavs to 32 bitrate mpegs, which while it doesn't produce perfect sound quality, does significantly reduce the size of the files.


Recording your voice with a Mac
1. Go to the Apple menu and pick "SimpleSound". Simplesound will record whatever you want as a system sound file.

2. Prepare your voice by coughing slightly and possibly doing a small hum. Let your words of wisdom flow.

3. Realise you sound like a dork and make several more attempts to record your voice sounding more sauve/sexy/human.

4. Open the System Folder, then the System File itself, and drag out the sound itself so you can work on it.

5. You can open the sound file with you Quicktime player, choose Export and choose "Sound to Wave" from the menu. Make sure to name the file yourname.wav. Hey presto, you have a wav file.

6. Now you can merrily attach this file to an email and send it off to Voice of the TM where I will helpfully convert it to an mpeg for you and put it up on the site.

7. Alternatively, if you have the software available to record mpegs or convert your wav into an mpeg, I would be most grateful. I've been converting wavs to 32 bitrate mpegs, which while it doesn't produce perfect sound quality, does significantly reduce the size of the files.