Dictionaraoke

What the heck is Dictionaraoke???

Dictionaraoke is the creation of parodies of popular songs using karaoke style backing music combined with backing vocals that are audio pronunciation samples downloaded from online dictionaries. The official Dictionaraoke site can be found here

This project was designed to be an introduction to file conversion and audio editing and production.

The original music files were MIDI and converted to .wav files for editing

The classes used the open source software Audacity for editing

The spoken words were downloaded from Webster's online dictionary

The final song was then converted to MP3 for web delivery

Student work - You should be able to click on the links to here the songs, although they may take a few seconds to download. If you have problems, you can try 'right-clicking' on the links and choosing the 'save as' command, then downloading the file to your computer and using any MP3 player to listen to the songs.

Immigrant Song - Listen to it here

Break on Through - Listen to it here

Ring of Fire - Listen to it here

Walk the Line - Listen to it here

White Wedding - Listen to it here

Take Me Out - Listen to it here

Badfish - Listen to it here

Girls - Listen to it here

Hells Bells - Listen to it here

Hey Joe - Listen to it here

I'm So Lonely - Listen to it here

I'm Sorry - Listen to it here

Ironic - Listen to it here

I will Survive - Listen to it here

Just What I Needed - Listen to it here

My Own Prison - Listen to it here

My Sharona - Listen to it here

Paradise City - Listen to it here

What I Got - Listen to it here