Automation From Excel

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I have the need for a large number of announcement WAV files.

In other words, a spreadsheet has things like “Access Granted”, “Access Denied”… etc.

In Excel I can look at a range of text and cause the SPEECH program to say each line…

Application.Speech.say(“Your info here”)

What I would LIKE to do…

  1. AUDACITY - Start record
  2. Speech Say…
  3. AUDACITY - Stop record
  4. Audacity saveas “Your info here.WAV”
  5. Audacity - clear

Then… I could point it to a bunch of text, and the result would be a bunch of WAV files that I could use from within some software I am writing.

Is that possible???
Thanks,
Jerry

2

The way that I would approach the task would be:
Start Audacity recording:
Record “Access Granted” … (space)
Record “Access Denied”… (space)
Record …
Stop the recording.

Add labels to each of the recorded section http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/label_tracks.html
The “Sound Finder” tool may be helpful for adding the labels http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/analyze_menu.html#Sound_Finder…

Use “Export Multiple” to export each labelled region as a separate file: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/export_multiple.html

3

When I do this, there will be about 1500 sayings, and I need to create 1500 individual WAV files.

It has to be 100% automated for this to work. If the commands can’t be sent via a shell or pipe then this is not going to work.

Does Audacity have the ability to be controlled via a command line syntax?

Thanks,
Jerry

4

Audacity is designed to work as a GUI application, though there is some experimental support for scripting.
As you require full automation with comprehensive command line support you would probably do better to use SoX http://sox.sourceforge.net/

5

Audacity can be made to do this but it would take a lot of programming work. I suspect that (if not SoX) a VB/VC++ app, from scratch, might be easier to write than hacking the Audacity code. If you want to hack the Audacity code, most of what you need can be found here:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/unattended-command-line-processing/15543/10
where I have made code available which allow this kind of operation.