Audacity Forum

Skype is the bare-bones of speech. Not a lot can be done to put flesh back on it, apart from amplify the most-skeletal parts of the spectrum with an equalizer ... waveform & spectrogram views of ''joe-burridge-podcast'', before-after equalization & compression.png ''joe-burridge-podcast'', b...

Mp3tag, (despite the name), may be of use in transferring the metadata from OGG files to the transcoded WAV versions.

Hello, that link doesn't work for me ... it just comes up with a .txt doc when I click the link to start the download ... Nyquist plugins are just like .txt documents, but they end in .ny , (rather than .txt). You can open them in a text-editor if you want to modify them ... ''Noisegate,ny'' Nyquis...

Jayde wrote:... Im looking for older sounding text to speech: (https://youtu.be/x7ZrKehQ_xc?t=24m53s) kinda what im looking for, or (https://youtu.be/x7ZrKehQ_xc?t=2m) ...

https://lingojam.com/StephenHawkingVoiceGenerator

skywalker1974 wrote:... anybody can suggest the better and faster way to remove breathing sounds from the audio so that i can save editing time.

In addition to Steve's Audacity-specific noise-gate plugin, there are De-breath plugins, ( IIRC FloorFish will do that ).

... I select it and click on "Enable" ... when I leave the manager menu and check under Effects, the plug-in doesn't show up - and when I return to the plug-in manager, it again shows as disabled. I can repeat the process as often as I want, but enabling the plug-in never 'sticks'. You ha...

That's annoying : in Audacity the applied effect of TDR Nova is much weaker than is heard on the preview.
A workaround : apply it twice to get something close to what you heard in the preview.

[ On another free audio editor, the TDR Nova the applied effect sounds the same as the preview ].

kozikowski wrote:Doesn't windows have the animated hourglass?

Just a flashing cursor on the Black Screen of Death ...

`Truncate Silence` is not an option for such case - because as you can see on the screenshots - this `silence-like` parts in reality a noise-like parts ... "Truncate silence" doesn't just work on true flat-line silence. You set a threshold on "Truncate silence" : anything below ...