Eliminate long pauses from a speech

Special Interest Groups Audio Processing
1

I’m listening an audio speech/lecture and I want to eliminate any long pauses in speech.

Is there any way to do this automatically?

2

If the long pauses are very quiet (no background noise) then you may be able to use “Truncate Silence” (Effects menu - Audacity 1.3)

If there is background noise, then there’s probably no alternative to manual editing.