Audacity Forum

Tried the link again and it's working now - must have just been a glitch. Without a lot of C programming experience I think that you will be struggling to make any headway into building Voice Activity Detection directly into Audacity (as a means of starting / stopping recording). However, if you are...

It has been reported by several users of Windows XP SP3 that the lame_enc.dll from the links on the Audacity website is not recognised by Audacity 1.2.6 If you have this issue, either update Audacity to 1.3.x and follow the instructions here: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=91...

Do you have anything selected? To select the track that you want to apply the effect to, click below the track name (taking care not to adjust the volume or pan sliders). To select part of a track, click and drag across the track. To select All audio in the project, use Ctrl+A See the Tutorials and ...

Try installing the "Jaunty" version of Audacity - it can be downloaded as a deb file from Ubuntu http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/audacity

1. Does this audio sound crappy on computers with better speakers? Yes. 2. Is there anything I can do in Audacity to make it sound better? Record it again with the microphone further away from the person talking. During the recording process, something has been overloaded (could be the microphone, ...

Some say that the inner blue region is the RMS value. Others say that it is just an optical effect from zooming in on the waveform. Personally I'm not sure, but the most important part is the outer region which indicates the peak levels. In the example you have given, this indicates that there is cl...

Audacity needs to be in "Stop" mode. Effects are not available while Audacity is "Paused".

mszlazak wrote:The first VAD algorithm I'd like to test is described here:
http://figment.cse.usf.edu/~sfefilat/da ... eBT5.3.pdf

Link not working.

How much programming experience do you have?

VST effects are not supported very well by Audacity. Have you tried G-Verb?

Some foams might help a little. Those little tie-tack microphones become slightly less bright when I put the foam blast filter on. I would agree with that. Also, the exact positioning of the microphone can make a big difference (some headsets are more adjustable than other in this respect). Placing...