I’ve hacked the code of the Silence Finder plug-in so that it will insert additional silence instead of creating labels.
This is a “quick ‘n’ dirty” hack rather than a polished piece of code, so there are a few limitations:
- probably requires Audacity 1.3.7 or later (only tested on 1.3.11)
- quite memory hungry - applying to long tracks will probably crash Audacity. To ensure that used memory is released, restart Audacity.
- mono tracks only.
(the “category” is also wrong, but this will not affect current versions of Audacity)
To see where silence will be inserted you can run “Silence Finder” first, then use the same settings for “Silence Lengthen”
To use, extract the attached file into your Audacity plug-ins directory. Restart Audacity and “Silence Lengthen” will appear in the Effects menu.
silencelength.ny.zip (2.15 KB)