Source Recording
A source recording (previously original recording) is an audio capture of a linguistic session, or a version that may have been "cleaned up". The "cleaned-up" version is not careful speech.
Source Recording is one of the stages of completion.
Tools
You can do any of the following:
For source recordings, consider the following:
Use recording devices, as described by Will Reiman:
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4479/1/reiman.pdf (Reiman, D. Will. 2010. Basic Oral Language Documentation. Language Documentation and Conservation 4. 254-268).
You can record and play using a computer and an application like Audacity.
Typically one would do the following: Turn on the recording device. Then, speak the file identifier, date and location, and names of the speaker(s), while checking that the sound-level indicator is working. Do this before putting the recorder close to the main speaker(s). A speaker may want to re-start the recording, at which point the operator presses the stop button and then begins a fresh recording with the same introduction as before, without deleting anything.
Related Topics
Related Internet Sites
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/