I made a few mistakes that I need to correct, so I did over the correct words and plug them in but of course now it doesnt sound the same as the audio. How do I correct this?
Are you live reading like an audiobook or podcast?
If you make a mistake live reading, leave the recorder running, look back to the last even sentence, and read the whole sentence again. The correction will have the same rhythm, pitch, and expression as the original and all you will have to do is delete the bad sentence later in editing.
There are some comedy YouTubes who make a mistake and leave two or three corrections in the show because it sounds so stupid.
You can’t record a correct word a week later and expect everything to match. There is no trick to it.
It’s even worse if you have live processing during the recording. The forum has been busy telling people how to turn recording processing off so their voice doesn’t sound funny. ACX Audiobooks hates that.
Even worse yet are some microphones that have processing built-in and you can’t turn it off.
Koz
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Hi! No, I’m not in the live. I thought I could go back and add the edits later. So, you’re saying to start over and there’s no way to correct it. Thank you for responding.
Professional BBC and Television Presenters can do that, that’s their job, but most normal people, no.
There are insanely complicated ways to do it.
Set up for musical overdubbing. That’s when you sing or perform live to a rhythm, drum, or other backing track that Audacity is playing to your wired headphones. Only in this case, you play the sentence or two before the mistake and read it to the second track in real time. That should help your pitch, expression, and rhythm match. It will be weird announcing to yourself and having both of you in the wired headphones. Bluetooth headphones don’t work.
Then play the two tracks back and use the new words to correct the errors in the old words.
Maybe someone will post with other ideas.
Koz
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