Dictionary - How to select thousands of words from WAV file and save each into single files?

[lukasg]

Hello, Could someone help me please?
I got an WAV audio file with 5000 single words in english read one by another with 1s space between - for a dictionary needs. And i got the same in polish.

I got 2 questions?

1. how can i automated check in Audacity to select all the phrases/words and save it into 5000 single words.
2. how can i join then 5000 words eng + 5000 words pl - into one file (1 eng word + 1 pl word) ?

Is there a functionality here?

Thank you.

[Wrecks0]

There is a Silence Finder effect that would create labels for you, and there is probably a macro that would export audio files by label.

[JimB15122]

I am working on a similar project. the approach i am using involves having a text file that has the name of each word. (in my case it is a play list) a python script then reads the list, and uses pipe-mod-script interaction to run a custom plugin i wrote to identify the silence boundaries and then generate named region labels for each word (track in the playlist). then it is a simple matter to export the audio by label.

it was not easy to get it all working, but i am very close. the biggest challenge was finding a way for the plugin to return db/rms analysis data back over the pipe. i finally gave up, and just use a temp file for the plugin to write to, then python script reads and deletes the file (many many times!!!)

if anyone knows how to get rms/db values for the current audio selection back through the pipe as a response, i am very curious.