how do i input audio into powerpoint from cassette recorder?

[Guest]

I am trying to figure out how i can take an interview i recorded in a
casette player and insert it into powerpoint

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You need a cable to plug the headphone jack of your casette player to the
microphone jack of your computer. The easiest thing to do would be to go
to PowerPoint and from the Insert menu choose Movies and Sounds and
choose Record Sound. The highest quality thing would be to record to a
sound editing program, edit the sound to be exactly how you want, and
save as a sound file (probably a WAV file), and then insert. If you have
a microphone and no cable to plug the casette player, you could use the
microphone to record what plays out of the speaker of your cassette
player, but that would diminish the quality significantly.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Sonia]

First you need to capture the tape input to a digital file on disk. Use audio
editing software to do this. I use Sound Forge. I connect the cassette player
to the Line-In port of my sound card and then set up Sound Forge to capture the
Line-In source to memory. Then I can edit the sound (crop out gaps, add fades,
splice it with other sounds, etc.).