In class when we are learning it is a relief to take a break from all the essays and have a fun project where at the end you present to the class. But for some this is a huge burden as they can’t stand presenting to the class. They could take a video that’s 100x more humiliating and that’s when speaker studio comes in only recording your voice!
Spreaker Studio has many features but some of the most prevalent are the sounds. When you first get into speaker and complete the tutorial if you look to your left you will see a lot of symbols just like the ones below. Tap one and a sound will play.
When you are recording you may tap one of these symbols and they will play a sound. For example, the one in the top left makes an applause. The one in the top right makes a laughing noise, although this may confuse students as it doesn’t play while you’re recording but instead will show up in the final product. You will know when the sound effects stops once the little yellow bar around the symbol has came all the way around.
Another feature of Spreaker is the “push to talk” option. This option allows students who are recording and someone unknowingly asks them a question this allows the students to stop recording their voices so they can answer the question and after cut the part where they don’t talk.
In my opinion, the features of Spreaker are great. Everything feels very polished. I haven’t experienced any delays or glitches in the many times I have used this app and I have even enjoyed listening to some of my friends recordings as you can post them and make your own little talking show where other users can listen to what you make! Or you can go live where others can join your stream. All you have to do is click “record” then live once you are live you can host your own chat room where others can comment on whatever you're doing!
With all of the features in Spreaker that should probably give away just how good of an app it is. Like I said before, it feels very polished and smooth and I haven’t experienced one glitch or delay in all my time of using this fun app. Another good thing to point out is how reliable it is unlike GarageBand, another recording app, in Spreaker you can create your own account. So if your data gets lost just log back in. This app also has a great tutorial showing you the basics in how to use a few of its many features. In the end I feel like this is a very easy to use app and is also very reliable.
Although this app is great with its many features, it is only the basics of what a recording app is and definitely suffers because of this. The app is mostly is blocked by a paywall with a monthly subscription you can edit your videos and do all that fancy stuff, but the problem with that is a school can’t fund 300 $10 monthly subscriptions so we have none of these extra features. Now this sounds fine “big deal I can’t edit my videos who cares?” Well, think about it. If you make one mistake in a 10 minute video it’s either start over or deal with it. As a result, this makes the recordings feel very unfinished. Although this app has a lot of good features, this one con can ruin this app for me.
So the now question is “should I get the app or not?” But that’s a tricky question. My thought is that this is more of a social app than an educational one. With creating an account and adding all your friends then live streaming to talk to them that is the main focus of this app, not a private recording studio. If you are looking for a private recording app I suggest “Wave Pad” being able to edit your videos and no social features. In conclusion, it depends on what you are looking for. A social casual recording app? Pick spreaker studio! Looking for a more complex and professional recording app? Pick wave pad!
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