Audacity Forum

I've not use the Mac dictation tool, but is the basic problem that the tool cannot keep up with the text? I don't think that inserting regularly spaced silences will work very well because it will cause some words to be split. The first think that I would do is to split the 10 hour recording into mo...

(what a loooooong time compiling................ almost one hour...) If you have a multi-core processor, use the "-j" switch with "make". Setting this to "number of cores +1" generally gives the fastest build time without crashing. For example, for a 4 core processor: ...

Trebor posted a demo of the envelope tool in this post: viewtopic.php?p=318115#p318115

Current normalize setting is to -1.5. To make it a touch louder should i put it to -2.0 or -1.0? I cant figure out which direction makes it louder 0dB is "full scale", so that's the loudest you can get without "clipping" (losing the tops / bottoms of the waveform). That means th...

norma623 wrote:Is it possible to separate the voices into their own track

Extremely unlikely.

Removing very low and very high frequencies with the "Telephone" or "Walkie Talkie" presets in the Equalization effect can sometimes help a little, but generally, if the recording quality is so bad that you can't hear what is being said, then it's a lost cause. Please note also t...

I'm not sure what you are asking.
Have you installed the plug-ins? Do they appear in the Audacity Effect menu?

Which versions do you have?
I presume that you don't have the original recordings.
If you only have a mixed down mono MP3, then you won't be able to un-mix it.

PAOLO58 wrote:how do I have to start?

Try here: http://bfy.tw/BtFw

1. Why no audio from loudspeakers while recording ? Because Windows disables "playthrough" by default, and for good reason. If your input was a microphone, and playthrough was enabled, then the sound from the speakers would go back into the microphone and cause howling feedback. As you ar...