User:.V./Audacity

Audacity is an excellent free audio recorder and editor. Extremely popular, many editors have found it useful in regards to the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia. Here's a quick and dirty guide on how to configure it for the Wikiproject.

Changing the OGG Quality
By default, Audacity records in 96kpbs. This is a waste if it's above 48kpbs though, so go to Edit -> Preferences -> File Formats and move the OGG Quality slider to 3. This will record in 48kbps.

Sample Rate
Go to the very same preferences screen, but click on the Quality pane. Set the first drop-down box to 44100hz.

Mono
To set the sound file to work in Mono, go to the Audio I/O pane of the preferences screen. On the second "Recording" drop down box, select 1 (Mono.)

That should do it!