Sound Finder / Silence Finder improvements

[Gale_Andrews]

@steve

@Gale Andrews

even if no one else wants it I would still like an option not to treat ignored sounds as silence.

In this example we are not treating the 0.2 second sound “as silence”. We are “ignoring it”.

If we were treating that 0.2 seconds “as silence”, then we would have silence from 1.0 to 3.2 seconds, which is a total of 2.2 seconds. That would be greater than our “allowed silence” so the silence would be recognised and the sounds 0.0 to 1.0 and 3.2 to 4.2 would be labelled individually.

OK; I’ll just rephrase my request to what it has always been in that example: label the first sound from 0.0 to 2.0 and the second sound from 2.2 to 4.2. I want to allow the clearly visible “silences” from 1.0 to 2.0 and 2.2 to 3.2 in my labelled sound (because those silences are less than my setting of 2.0). I want to ignore the sound from 2.0 to 2.2 because it is shorter than my setting of 0.5.

It’s a reasonable interpretation of the labels for those controls I think, so an option for treatment of “ignore” should be considered that allows that. If I have crackle, I can turn the option off or deal with the crackle.

@steve

I’m not sure about the wording for “Minimum label length:”
It’s fine while we are using region labels, but it does not really make sense if we switch to point labels. Any ideas?

I’m not sure “join labels” is quite right either, as that implies the long label will still contain individual labels.

I see it as “Minimum length to be marked” or “Don’t label less than” or maybe “Minimum labelled length”. I think I like the third best, but the first is clearest.



Gale