Free Podcasting Tools

Audacity

Audacity is a free, audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity offers
- Recording live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Freecorder toolbar

Freecorder Toolbar is a revolutionary new browser-based audio recording program. Its features include

- Records what you hear from your PC's speakers.
- Supports all Windows versions, including Windows Vista.
- Works with any sound card, even those that don't support recording (like RealTek and SigmaTel).
- Records from the microphone or line-in inputs on your PC.
- Unique Sound Separation Technology eliminates background noises.
- Automatically removes silence from start and end of recording.
- See recordings happening with the cool Visualizer.
- Saves recordings as MP3 or WAV files.
- Includes a powerful Google-based search, and optional browser enhancements like a radio player, weather bug, pop-up blocker, search highlighter and more.

Wavepad

WavePad is a sound editor for Windows that lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy, and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects such as echo, amplification, and noise reduction.

Features that Wavepad boasts of are
- Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
- Batch processing supports up to 32000 files allowing you to apply effects and/or convert your files as a single function.
- Tools include spectral analysis (FFT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech).
- Recorder supports autotrim and voice activated recording and more.
- Audio restoration features including noise reduction and click pop removal.
- Includes its own CD ripper with 'ultrafast 'rip mode and cddb music database lookup.
- Links directly to the Express Burn CD Recorder to burn your sound files to CD.

iTunes

Want to listen to your favorite radio shows and audio and video programs anytime? The iTunes Store offers over 100,000 podcast episodes from independent creators and big names like HBO, NPR, ESPN, The Onion, CBS Sports, and The New York Times.

Juice

Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. .
Supporting more than 15 languages with multiple media players, managing podcasts, accessable for blind and visually impaired users(windows only) are some of its striking features.

Talkr

Provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. Talkr also converts an RSS or Atom feed (a machine-readable version of favorite blog or news source) from text to speech. Talkr can also provide users with a podcast of their favorite news sources.

Podsafe Music Network

This site provides podsafe music to be used within podcasts. This site also enables you to broadcast your own podcasts.

Feed For All

FeedForAll allows users to
- Create RSS feeds & podcasts
- Edit RSS feeds & podcasts
- Manage and publish RSS feeds
- Create iTunes compatible podcasts

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