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| HolyGrail Newbie ThailandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3950 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 10 12 May 2014 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Guys,
I'm wanting to cut some audio files of speech etc to add silence so I can repeat in the spaces. I've been using Audacity and the silence lengthen plug in but its a bit rough. I'm using quite long advanced material ( Audio books or high level textbook dialogues) so editing by hand is not an option. Are there any better pieces off software for doing this or places I can download dialogues that are already cut? thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 10 12 May 2014 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you use audacity, just generate a silence as long as you need (Menu->generate->Silence) then highlight and copy the silence. You can then just paste it in where you want it.
If you need to use the silence finder tool and insert a lot of silences, someone on the forums wrote a plugin for Audacity that seems to do what you want. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=21923 Edited by rdearman on 12 May 2014 at 3:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 10 12 May 2014 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Holy Grail, I have heard from @AlOlaf that he has done a lot of such work creating speaking pauses in audio material.
My suggestion is that you send him a PM and ask him about this topic. Good luck! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 12 May 2014 at 10:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| HolyGrail Newbie ThailandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3950 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 10 14 May 2014 at 7:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi guys, thanks for the feedback.
rdearman: I might try that methodFor short pieces e.g. poems. But I'm working with long materials so, don't really want to do it manually. I'm trained as an audio engineer and I'm pretty good at editing audio but it still takes too much time. Fasulye: I tried to find @AlOlaf in the Buddy list but it says he doesn't exist! Is there any other way of contacting him? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 10 14 May 2014 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I began a very ambitious project like adding silence to an audiobook once. It was far too timeconsuming.
One of the things I've learned along the language learnng path is to limit my audio edits to things that can be "chained" in Audacity. I'm now even reluctant to split a long mp3 up into separate, shorter pieces. I will occasionally do that, but my new approach is to find easier material or to live with the current audio or to find a change that can be chained. It's just not worth the time. With your project, I'd look into "shadowing'. Basically try to say what the audio is saying as soon as you can after you hear it on the audio. If this is impossible, change your goal. Easier goals that don't require editing audio are: 1) Understanding the audio by listening while reading a translation (Listen/Reading) 2) Understanding the audio while reading in target language. 3) Understanding audio on it's own. 4) Begin shadowing. You may not be able to shadow every sentence or even many of them. Just start by repeating phrases that you understand. 5) Continue shadowing. In the meantime, other studies with other material should make the above steps easier. If they are impossible, then your original audio editing goal is far too ambitious. Edited by luke on 14 May 2014 at 11:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4838 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 6 of 10 14 May 2014 at 10:47am | IP Logged | ||
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luke, what do you mean by "chained"? Piecing various pieces of audio together into one file?
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 10 14 May 2014 at 11:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Chains are what Audacity calls a "batch process". There are menu items to "Edit Chains (create your own)",
and "Apply Chains" (to a group of files). Example "Truncate Silence and Double Compress": Truncate Silence Compress Compress exportAsMP3 If there are a group of files that would benefit from similar treatment, you can "apply chain" to the entire group. Often multiple episodes or podcasts or chapters need similar audio treatment. Applying a chain in Audacity makes it easy to do that. You can walk away from your computer and do something else while it mass edits your files. The edited versions are below the current directory in a folder called "clean". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4512 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 8 of 10 14 May 2014 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
drop the @ ;) here is his profile: AlOlaf Edited by daegga on 14 May 2014 at 3:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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