Sounds in Scratch: Add, Record, and Use Text to Speech
From Scratch
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Summary
A tutorial on three ways to add sound to a project: choosing a sound from Scratch's library, recording your own voice with a microphone, and using the text-to-speech extension to make a sprite "talk."
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This video shows three different ways to add sound to a Scratch sprite.
- What are the three ways to add sound shown in the video?
- When might recording your own voice be better than using a library sound?
- What would you want a sprite in your project to say or sound like?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: sound library, record, text to speech.
Try it: Pick one sound from the Scratch sound library and add a block that plays it when a sprite is clicked.