Creating & Sharing a Link on how to Pronounce Your Name: For Students
Let instructors and classmates hear how to pronounce your name. Add a link of an audio clip of how to pronounce to your Canvas profile. This article outlines a few ways to create and share this link.
Create Your Audio Clip:
- Option 1: Use Kaltura Capture
- Option 2: Use an online tool
- Option 3: Use another audio on your computer and save it to the web.
Add Your Pronunciation Link:
Create Your Audio Clip
Option 1: Use Kaltura Capture
This software is available to all UWL users.
- Open Kaltura Capture. (* Don’t have Kaltura Capture? This article will walk you through how to get it.)
- Create an audio-only recording: screen off, camera off, audio on. In your recording, speak your first and last names. Speak slowly and articulate both names. Pause between your names.
- Name your recording accurately (i.e. Pronounce First Last)
- Save & Upload
- Login to mediaspace.wisconsin.edu and navigate to your videos list
- Select the pronunciation recording you uploaded.
- Under the right hand corner, select the dropdown “Actions”
- Click “Publish”
- Change the publishing status to “Unlisted” and hit Save
- Get the link to share by going to the “Share” tab and selecting “Link to Media Page”
- COPY this link to your clipboard to use in your Canvas Profile
Option 2: Use an online tool
Create an account with a free online tool such as NameCoach to create your recording. Get the link to the pronunciation page to add to your Canvas Profile.
Option 3: Use another audio on your computer and save it to the web.
There are other options that might work better for you based on what you have used/have access to on your device. Technologies like QuickTime and Audacity can create audio files; you can upload these files to Kaltura, YouTube, One Drive, etc. to generate a link to the recording. The link is what you need to add to your Canvas profile.
Add Your Pronunciation Link
To your Canvas Profile
- Login to Canvas
- Go to your Account > Profile > Edit Profile
- Add a link > title/URL (ex. Title: Here is how to pronounce my name. ---> URL: enter the link)
- Save Profile
- Login to your email via Outlook for the web
- Go to Settings > Email Signature
- Add signature information you'd like included including a link title "Hear my name" (or something similar) with a link to the file you just created