I Would Like to Make Spoken Word Recordings

Do you have something like this in mind?
http://www.xheadsoftware.com/recorder_xhead.asp?gclid=CMWG9uKbr4wCFQzDYgodFRq6Rg

ibook has a built in microphone but to tune out noises, you can
buy yourself a good headset with micro around $ 20 and it will work
just fine.

Hi Gargamel, I'm not a Mac user, but from the Apple site…

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/


Featured Download

Amadeus Pro 1.0.3
05/23/2007 Shareware

About Amadeus Pro:

Lets you use your Macintosh computer for any audio-related task, such as live audio recording, digitizing tapes and records, converting between a variety of sound formats, etc. Thanks to its outstanding direct-to-disk abilities and waveform caching, edits on arbitrarily large sounds (even beyond the usual 2GB limit) are performed at lightning speed.

The handling of large sounds is furthermore facilitated by the extensive support of markers. Its outstanding sound repairing and denoising abilities make Amadeus Pro particularly suitable for transferring vinyl records on CD.

Some of the most noteworthy features of Amadeus Pro include:
- Simple and elegant Mac OS X - like user interface.
- Multitrack editing and recording.
- Batch processing and conversion.
- Sound denoising and repairing.
- Supports a variety of sound formats, including AIFF, Multichannel Wave, Mp3, Mp4, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, SoundDesigner II, QuickTime, Apple CAF, etc.
- Many more features.


Sounds good.

That's even better

Excellent.