stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

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nelsonkane
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stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

Post by nelsonkane » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:15 pm

Windows 10, 1903

If I record a woman speaking one word and put it on Audacity, how can I make that in to a 10-second duplicate, and keep the same pitch, without it sounding like the same word spoken 10 times in a row?

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Re: stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

Post by jh90s » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:36 pm

Not really possible, sadly... You'll have to get that word recorded 10 times. Sadly you can't alter a voice and it's intonations without changing something such as the formant or pitch or just re-recording it so you get the desired result!

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Re: stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

Post by steve » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:44 pm

If you want this as an "effect", rather than someone actually talking very slowly, try these three effects (they each produce a different kind of effect):
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html (try both the HQ and non-HQ settings)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_speed.html (literally "slows down" the selected audio)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/paulstretch.html (really cool effect, but not at all "natural" sounding)
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Re: stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

Post by Trebor » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:08 pm


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Re: stretching out a 1-second word for 10 seconds?

Post by nelsonkane » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:16 pm

steve wrote:
Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:44 pm
If you want this as an "effect", rather than someone actually talking very slowly, try these three effects (they each produce a different kind of effect):
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_tempo.html (try both the HQ and non-HQ settings)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/change_speed.html (literally "slows down" the selected audio)
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/paulstretch.html (really cool effect, but not at all "natural" sounding)
Thanks, I'll give it a try! :)

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