I need to produce 20 recordings of the same spoken word. Each needs to have <=500ms leading and trailing silence. I am new to Audacity.
What are your suggestions for the easiest way to do this (step-by-step if you can)? Thank you for your help!
I guess there’s some important detail missing from your post, otherwise:
Use an iPhone, dictaphone, or anything else that can record at the press of a button, press the record button, and say the word 20 times, leaving about half a second between each word.
If you need 20 separate audio files, label the individual sections, and use export multiple to create the individual files.
[ If you need true flat-line silence, a noise-gate will squelch any noise below a user-defined threshold to silence ]
say the word 20 times,
These recordings will be used for a dataset to train a machine learning application and the same word needs to be spoken and recorded 20 separate times.
I am wondering what the most efficient way to do this will be. Each recording needs to be a separate file. Thanks.
Assuming that you have Audacity set up to record from a microphone (if not, see here in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_your_first_recording.html)
- Press the Record button
- Record yourself saying the word 20 times, then stop the recording
- Label each word with a region label (http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html)
The “Sound Finder” could be used here, but for only 20 labels it would not take much longer to manually add the labels. - “Export multiple” to make an audio file from each labelled region http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/export_multiple.html