Editing recorded speech more quickly

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Hello Audacity World,

I have been editing the heck out of recorded convo’s for release as pods.
Taking out unwanted bits, clicks, repeats, stutters, errrrrms etc. all the usual dross.

After a while I’ve got ok-ish at removing stuff without it sounding artificial but I want to take the next steps on the learning curve now. As I may be doing some more…

At the moment I zoom in to the offending bit - choose a start and fin of a section to delete or alter (matching up with breaths etc ) delete or alter it - listen - then UNDO and adjust if necessary - and repeat till happy.

My Qu : Is there a way to “preview” play the sound file as if the selected section for deletion/alteration has already been altered/deleted - to avoid having to go through the UNDO step each time I adjust - cutting out the undo step ?
(would it be called non-contiguous play or something? )
I imagine one would have to set a start and finish for the preview “window” (so I can hear the altered bit in “context” to be sure it sounds ok - so maybe a few secs b4 and after the altered bit …
Or should I be using an different DAW or learn some programming … ?
Any help gratefully recieved - hopefully I’ve missed something completely obvs
Cheers All.
Rob

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=audacity+punch+and+roll+recording

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There is a shortcut C that plays a cut preview.

there is a command for this too but it is hidden these days in the Extra menus so to see it you would need to turn on the Extra menus with View > Extra Menus
and then use Extra > Transport > Play Cut Preview

the default setting isx to play 2 seconds before the proposed cut and one second after - but you can change that in Playback Preferences.

Peter

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thanks … Robert? :slight_smile:

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Thanks Peter - can’t wait to try - cheers !

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Are you sure the official keyboard shortcut for play cut preview is the B key? I press C to do that, and I don’t remember changing it. I think B moves the focus to the start of the selected audio.

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@atriptothemoon indeed @Wrecks0 is perfectly right the correct shortcut us indeed C - I’ll correct my original post.

Thanks for catching that Rex.

Peter.

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