Soundcite. Injecting sound into a text

Last updated on 2 February 2022

Soundcite is a free service for injecting sound into a text. A great lever to insert a good dose of multimedia into a narrative while staying as close as possible to the text. I explain myself. Audio is a powerful tool that can add emotion or context to a story. Unfortunately, audio clips require you to make choices: read or listen, but not both.

SoundCite is a simple to use tool that allows you to insert sound behind your text. Audio is not isolated, it is broadcast directly below the text.

Adding sound to a text

Soundcite allows sound to be injected behind a text. The reader will be able to click on one or more words to launch and listen to the sound inserted by the author. This is finely done. Here the sound is in support of the written word. It enriches it. It does not disperse the reader’s attention. It will even allow him to better fit in.

It is like adding a play button to certain words you publish online. You can add music, interview excerpts or anything else. Soundcite works with WordPress or most other sites.

 

Instructions for injecting sound into text with Soundcite

Using Soundcite may seem complex, but it is not if you follow step-by-step the instructions published on the app’s website.

First, you need to find or confuse the sound you want to add to a word in your text. The easiest way is to perch your sounds on Soundcloud. Once your sound file is in place, enter the url in the Soundcite page. If you can’t do it from Soundcloud, you can also upload the sound directly to your blog media library. Retrieve the url from the file and paste it into Soundcite.

Note that the tool allows you to select only part of the sound. If you want to play the entire audio file, you have nothing to do. Otherwise you will be able to choose beginning and end.

Once your clip is ready, Soundcite provides you with two codes to integrate into the source code of your article. The first is at the very beginning of the article, the second is instead of the word you want to sound.

Soundcite is one of the tools for Multimedia storytelling Completed free of charge by the Knight Lab at Northwestern University. A community of designers, developers, students and educators working on experiences to explore new forms of storytelling for journalists. The same team is behind the TimelIne KnightLab which allows you to create chronological friezes.