Audio basics
Quiet room, soft furnishings, consistent mic distance, normalise levels, remove plosives and long pauses.
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Day 46 / 60Week 5 · DevelopmentLesson
ElevenLabs & audio
Learning goal
Produce clean narration audio, synthetic or recorded, with ethical practice.
Estimated time
25 minutes · self-paced
Warm-up
What matters more: voice quality or script quality?
Main lesson
Synthetic voice done well
examplePunctuate for pacing, spell out acronyms phonetically, split long paragraphs, and always listen end to end before publishing.
Ethics and disclosure
Never clone a voice without written consent. Tell learners when narration is synthetic if your organisation requires it.
Examples from practice
- — A 45-second narration regenerated after fixing pacing punctuation.
Interactive quiz
Reflection
How do you feel about AI voices in learning content?
Daily challenge
Generate or record 60 seconds of narration for your module.
Portfolio task
Attach the audio file to Project 5.
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