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How To Add Your Own Audio Version to Your Blog Posts
A quick and easy guide to recording and publishing narrated articles
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5 min readNov 25, 2019
One of the easiest ways to make yourself stand out on Medium is to include audio recordings. It’s not just for accessibility, though it certainly does help for visually-impaired readers. It’s a way to humanize yourself, to give your readers, your community, another part of yourself.
They can hear your voice, delivering your own words; it’s almost like they’re having a conversation with you.
And thanks to Medium’s wonderful flexibility as a platform, it’s really easy to do. You don’t have to have any kind of fancy recording equipment or a studio setup.
All you need are:
- A microphone. If you’re on a laptop, chances are fairly good that you have an integrated microphone. I’m sure there’s also a way to do this using your cell phone to record the audio and then moving it to your computer to upload and publish. But I imagine recording it on your computer will sound cleaner and more professional. I use a fairly inexpensive USB microphone.
- Audacity. It’s a free, open-source software for recording and mixing audio. It might look scary to use, but we’re only using it’s basic functionality here.
