Creating Repeat phrases/silences

[sbale331]

Is there a way I can save things like repeat phrases and silences? (I’m particularly frustrated with having to create a new silence, copy it, paste it, and adjust the size over and over.) If I could click on a shortcut of some kind and insert these things, that would save me an enormous amount of time.
I appreciate your help and understand if you’re taking a well-deserved holiday off. I can wait.

Thanks so much,
Sara Moser Bartlett

[Trebor]

Is there a way I can save things like repeat phrases and silences? (I’m particularly frustrated with having to create a new silence, copy it, paste it, and adjust the size over and over …

If you’re trying to automatically extend silences, there’s a plug-in for that …

Extend Silences

Topic split from https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/modified-silence-marker-to-insert-more-silence/29449/1 This plug-in was originally developed in response to a request for a way to “stretch” the pauses in a language tutorial recording so that the user has more time to repeat each phrase. The plug-in is not restricted to speech recordings - it may be used in any type of recording where there is a need to extend the silences within the recording. The plug-in code has copious in-line comments tha…

[sbale331]

Thanks for getting back to me on a holiday. I appreciate it!

I’m glad there’s a plug-in solution to repeating silences.

I have since created a major emergency for myself, and I don’t know how I did it. I’ve lost seven pages that I recorded yesterday. Is there a way to get them back if I’ve clicked on “replace” when I added more pages?

Thanks,
Sara

[sbale331]

I’m a newbie to plug-ins. Is it possible to give me a step-by-step as to how I open this plug-in in Notepad?

Thanks,
Sara

[sbale331]

Have a wonderful holiday. I’ll check with you Monday.

Thanks so much,
Sara Moser Bartlett

[Trebor]

I’m glad there’s a plug-in solution to repeating silences.

The plug-in extends all existing silences in the recording
(it was designed to be applied to language tutorials to give people more time to repeat the preceding phrase)

How it works:
The plug-in scans the selected track, looking for places where the audio level remains below a specified level (the “Threshold”) for more than a specified period. These places are classified as “silences”. The plug-in then extends each detected “silence” by inserting additional silence at the end of each detected silence.

The amount of silence inserted may be defined in three ways:

As an absolute length (in seconds).
As a proportion of the length of the detected silence.
As a proportion of the length of the preceding sound.

I’m a newbie to plug-ins. Is it possible to give me a step-by-step …

“ExtendSilence.ny” is a Nyquist type plugin.
Here’s the Audacity manual page on how to install Nyquist plugins …
https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist_plug_in_installer.html

[sbale331]

Thanks for getting back to me, and sorry for not replying to you (holidays).

I really appreciate the plug-ins explanation. Looks like something I can really use.

Thanks so much,
Sara Bartlett