Audacity Forum

By the way, if you do record for audiobooks, there is a common trap. You can rescue a ratty recording into an ACX compliant recording, but it will likely fail Human Quality Control as "over processed."

It can't sound like a bad cellphone.

Koz

Talking in a wine glass sound can be the result of MP3 (or other compression) distortion, or overuse of noise reduction. Both are not recoverable. Go back to the original shoot...or re-shoot.

Koz

We may be able to help by accident.

Standard Audio CD disks do not have headings, titles or graphics. Those are special purpose multi-media disks. Someone here may accidentally know how to make those, but Audacity doesn't burn anything.

Koz

... it still came out terrible. I am obviously making some basic mistake, but must plead being very inexperienced in these sort of jobs, can anybody help me please

... with the same results. So I've got a repeatable occurrence of the bug. I'll probably leave this instantiation of Audacity running, in case it can help in debugging, and execute Audacity again to continue my work using a recent save-as backup file of my project. I'll try to attach screenshots of ...

Thank you for the advice, Koz. I have one additional question. What can I do if the person sounds like they're somewhat underwater? Can Audacity do anything about that? I was able to reduce the white noise in the short video, but the underwater problem remains. Thanks in advance!

at least three times that didn't help

You changed the sample rate and the pitch of the clip did not change?

Koz

... I use it quite a bit. I would like to ask, if the Audacity Project command (.aup) be used in the Chain box? BTW, I'm bilingual (Spanish) and I can help regarding translations of the program. Not all Spanish speaking countries speak the same Spanish. Believe me. :)

... one from 1972 was still in cellophane wrapper. Am on way to fishing cabin, off grid, so will not play till Tuesday. Thanks for interest + lead to help with posting sound sample Am getting good quality FLAC files from most - using them on FiiO high def handheld into Bose dock, or headphones. Am ...

... and transcribe. I tried noise reduction but could not get a marked improvement. I admit I have no idea what I'm doing. I have looked at the help menus and tried to follow them but am not having much luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it. Sample recording ...