Recording a poem or story

You may have a short story or a poem you want to record with your own voice and publish it on your blog, but how shall you do that?
If you look at my blog, you'll see that I have published a beautiful poem by Cummings, with a picture and my recorded voice. And, not long ago I published a fable with my own voice too. So, why don't you try it now too?
You can write your own poem, caligram, fable story, scan it from a book, copy it from the Internet and create either a word or a pdf file to upload with Scribd or Issuu to the blog. Add some pictures, to make it look nice and finally embed an audio player or insert a link to an audio file.
To record your voice, you can use a digital recorder and later transfer the file to a computer, or you can use Audacity or any other kind of audio software to record your voice in the computer.
You'll find Audacity at the Multimedia Room or you may as well download it into your computer (remember to download the extension library too, which you'll need to export files into other formats). It's very easy to use: Set the audio properties in the computer for recording (they are normally set for playing) and check that the microphone is working. Open Audacity and click on the record button, read your peom aloud, or whatever you want, and stop to finish. To listen to your recording, click on play. If you like it, click on save file. If you don't, open a new file and start recording again. When you are ready and your recording is saved, click on Export file to MP3, this way you'll have an mp3 file, which you can later publish on the blog (Audacity files can't be used on the blog, they need to be converted into mp3 files)