Are you getting the “Blocked Ports” error when trying to record from Microphone? This error shows up when the Blabber creator can’t reach our recording server so that it can stream the audio that you record from your microphone live to our server. Fortunately there are some work arounds for getting your audio to our server.
You can Call-In your audio by using the call in audio function. When you click the call in audio option you’ll be presented with a toll free number (Normal Rates apply!) and an ID number that you need to enter when prompted. Then you’ll be asked to record your audio and instantly you’ll see it working with your blabber. This option usually works without issue.
The other option is to Upload your audio. Before you can upload your audio though, you need to record it and save it. Windows has sound recorder available for recording and Macs have simple recorder for recording. We like to use a free program called audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/) which runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. You record your audio and save it to your computer and then upload your audio by pressing the upload audio button on the recording step.
There are a lot of benefits of recording your audio and then uploading. For example adding effects and filters to change your voice. Also having the ability to record your audio before hand allows you to create cleaner recording and easily make multiple takes. Also if you want to apply the same sound to many blabbers you can upload your audio to each blabber you make.
Let us know if you have any issues and we’ll do our best to help you.
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I love making these blabberizes. I would like to make one for my students in class about a topic so I was going to upload an audio file for a presentation but it will only allow me to upload 30 sec. Is there a way to make a longer blabberize? If so, how can i make it?
There shouldn’t be a recording limit currently so you should be able to go crazy and make really long blabbers. But don’t go over 5 minutes. We had someone that created a blabber longer then 20 minutes. We were amazed, impressed, and a little scared. The system isn’t set up to handle that much sound data, not yet at least.