how to strip out silent segments?

[oakisland]

What are your recommendations for how to remove the silent portions from a wave?

Is there an automatic way to do it? ("Detach at Silences" sounds promising but does nothing, zippo, whether I have all highlighted or nothing higlighted.)

Or perhaps there are steps... (Obviously, I can do the looooong manual steps of click-drag-highlight each silent region and delete it... or the equivalent of clicking then splitting, then deleting the segments...)

Thanks
oak island

[waxcylinder]

use Effect > Truncate Silence

See this page in the 1.3 manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Truncate_Silence

WC

[oakisland]

Applause! Thanks, waxcylinder!
oak island

[waxcylinder]

Glad that helped (it's only easy when you know how )

WC