Increasing sections of silence in a track

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I am using Audacity 2.1.3 in Windows 7.

I have a language learning CD which has pauses for repetition but the pauses are not long enough for a normal person to repeat what was just said for language learning / practice.

Does Audacity have any feature that allows one to increase automatically any period of silence by a fixed amount in a track?
Say increase a silence of 2 seconds to maybe 6 or 8 seconds.

Thank you.

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There’s a plug-in here that may help: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/extend-silences/34612/1
For installation instructions, see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins#install

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Thank you - looks exactly what I was looking for.