Recording my voice and compare to the original

[juliaa2020-1]

I am learning English by using mimic method。
I would like to record my voice sentence by sentence and compare them with the original sentence.

The "original track" does not have spaces between sentence for me to speak.
Example:
"Original sentence 1""Original sentence 2"""Original sentence 3"".

I want to first play "original sentence1", then record "my voice sentence1". then i play the original sentence2,then record " my voice sentence2" and repeat the process until the end of the original track.

then the end result may look like this:
"Original sentence 1" "my voice sentence 1" "Original sentence 2" "my voice sentence 2""Original sentence 3""my voice sentence 3" .

Thanks
julia

[kozikowski]

The "original track" does not have spaces between sentence for me to speak.

I think you're too close to the problem. What you want seems easy, but it's exactly the same jobs as making a radio show.

You have existing voices and nobody knows what the lengths and volumes are. You are going to live record into a microphone and need to adjust recording volume, start and stop times. You need to cut everything up into pieces so the pieces fit one behind the other.

A little music at the beginning and the end and you have a radio interview show.

Audacity has no idea what words are. Everything is just sounds. So a person (the Producer or the Editor) has to find the words by hand and do all those jobs.

Someone may have different ideas.

Sometimes people post with a description of a machine or service that already exists and is very expensive.

Koz

[Trebor]

If there is a small gap between sentences it can be expanded to accomdate repetition by manually inserting silence,
or automatically extending silences using this Audacity plugin.

[juliaa2020-1]

The "original track" does not have spaces between sentence for me to speak.

thanks for your reply.

original track: "original sentence1" "original sentence2"(end of the track)

Here is what i do:
1. Tick the overdubbed in Preferences.
2. Select "whole original sentence1".
3. Hit the red round button or press "R" key.
the result is :
original track: "original sentence1" "original sentence2"(end of the track)
My record track: "my voice sentence1"
4. Select " whole original sentence2".
5. Hit the red round button or press "R" key.
the result:
original track: "original sentence1" "original sentence2"(end of the track)
My record track: "my voice sentence1" "my voice sentence2"

it seems my record always starts from the end of the original track.

what I want may like this:
original track: "original sentence1" "original sentence2"(end of the track)
My record track: "my voice sentence1" "my voice sentence2"
or
original track: "original sentence1" "original sentence2"(end of the track)
My record track: "my voice sentence1"
My record track1 "my voice sentence2"

thanks
julia

[Trebor]

... it seems my record always starts from the end of the original track.

To record on a new track, rather than from the end of the existing one, tick the "Record on a new track" box ...


https: //manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_preferences.html

[juliaa2020-1]

thanks you Trebor.

Now I want to split my track into some new mp3 files,i have labeled them. There may be 40 labels in total this time.
and then I use File->Export->Export Multiple. Then A Dialog "Edit metadata tags" appears for every new mp3 files. I have to click ok many times (this case it is 40 times) until I set all metadata for all new files. I 'd like to know if there is a way to set the metadata once for all the new mp3 files, because all new mp3 files have the same metadata information.
Thanks
Julia.

[Trebor]

You can choose not to have the metadata dialog appear when saving (exporting),
see ... https : //manual.audacityteam.org/man/import_export_preferences.html

( An MP3 tag-editor program can batch-process audio-files to give them all the same metadata ).

[juliaa2020-1]

Trebor , thank you so much. that's great. This thing has been bothering me for a long time.