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... you didn't do anything to that during this testing period. As a useless aside. Some soundcards have a "[X] 20dB Mic Boost" feature to help with weak microphones -- now that it's too late. Koz

Thanks Robert

I will try all the suggestions. Thanks for the valuable help.

It may be necessary to scan the whole effect list. External plug-ins have sometimes "VST" or the manufacturers name in front of it.

... stereo recording I only got a mono signal. I get both tracks, but it's mono. I tried loading the lastest version of Audacity down, but that didn't help. I also tried swapping the cables, but that didn't help. It doesn't matter which source I use, DVD, CD, turntable or radio, it's the same. I've ...

You could try Effect > Equalization > Telephone filter. That one is brute force and doesn't depend on anything else.
Koz

It seems that way, yes.
Our tools require that you be able to recognize the voice. If you can't do that up front, then that's the end of the story.
Koz

Upon further inspection, I did find at least one distorted "s" problem with sibilance which leaves me even more interested in getting "lisp" working.

Looking forward to hearing from you on the install problem.

Thanks. It is a cell phone recording. Seems that if the background noise could be silenced the dialogue could be tweeked to an understandable level.

... in this particular clip. I read on the "Lisp" home page that it also works with "teh" sounds. Perhaps, that would help me. I tried to install it but I'm having problems. Please help. Here is what I did: I downloaded the .zip file. I copied the lisp.dll file from ...

... Tags . There is "Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)" ID3 tag, so maybe you can use that. I rarely use Audacity for tagging, so I can't really help you with it. MP3tag is a handy tagging application that can do almost anything that's legal in any tag format, and it works an almost all file ...