I record interviews by telephone, and need to be able to remove my voice from the finished recordings in order to plug them into a dragon transcription program. Regular editing is prohibitively time consuming. Does Audacity have a function that will either record my voice on a separate track from the interviewee’s, of remove my voice from the recording altogether?
Desperate.
Not in post production, no.
Give you can’t afford a full-on broadcast telephone hybrid processor, you get yourself a Skype account with the paid option to connect to a telephone circuit. Then you get yourself Pamela Business or Pamela Professional. Both will record your voice on one side of a high quality WAV stereo sound file and the far side on the other.
http://www.pamela.biz/en/products/
There are free products you can try, but beware the ones that do not split the two sides of the conversation and/or insist on saving the work as MP3. Never do production in MP3.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/help-recording-with-a-mic-laptop-and-headphones/35068/6
Given you wear a headset with earphones and boom microphone (do not make Skype echo and noise cancel), you can do very well with this setup.
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/DeniseFirstPass-Edited.mp3
This was a total ratty test clip, but note Denise sounds like she’s on a sofa behind me. She’s actually four time zones away. I could have produced this as a split track, but the goal was to see how far we could get making a mixed show.
Koz