How to get rid of extraneous noises

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Audacity 2.0.6

I’ve hunted through the manual some for this but can’t find exactly what I need. I know how to delete sections of a track, but when I do, the whole track moves over to fill in the space. I want to delete coughing, but keep the timing the same. How do I do that?

Thanks, and sorry I have such simple questions. I’m sure it’s in the manual somewhere and I’m just not thinking of the right thing to look for.

Vicki

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I know what you mean - It’s like looking up a word in the dictionary when you don’t know how to spell it :wink:

What you’re looking for is “Split Delete”
It’s in the "Edit menu > Remove Special > "
The keyboard shortcut is Alt+Ctrl+K

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/edit_menu.html#remove

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Awesome! And now I have a phrase for looking it up in the online manual (which I did, but I don’t need to anymore). :slight_smile:

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It would be better if we had a proper search for the online Manual. Until we do, you can bookmark this https://www.google.com/search?q=delete+audio&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fmanual.audacityteam.org%2Fo%2F .

What you wanted would have been second result.

Gale

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I would have picked Silence the Selection, Control-L. Split Delete leaves a portion of the production with no track.
Koz

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A drawback of silencing is that it leaves an unnatural audio gap. To keep the timing, I sometimes paste an equal portion of compatible ambient sound.

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I agree, but:

A drawback of silencing is that it leaves an unnatural audio gap.

Correct me, but so does Split Delete.

Koz