This forum is for Audacity on Windows.I am working on combining two tracks: one is in a foreign language and the other is the translation of that first track. When combined, it is a very long track (11 minutes) that has a segment spoken in a foreign language followed by the translation of that same segment. I also have labels for each segment (on all tracks) to keep them easily identified between segments of each language; and I just noticed a mistake at the beginning of the combined track. What I need to be able to do in an efficient way is to "insert" a blank segment, so I can copy/paste both the corrected translation and label, while keeping all other segments and labels together. When I attempted to use the 'sync-lock tracks' and highlighted both the track and label regions and then 'generate silence', it added the silence to the track, while the corresponding labels remained in place.
How do I 'insert' a segment or silence, while keeping both the track and labels synced and shifting together after the point of 'insertion'/generation/pasting, please?
Thank you.
*** EDIT: I just updated the software and tried it again and the track segments seem to be synced to the labels now.
I was fretting over having to realign the labels, as it is very time consuming, and i want to be done with this particular track after 3 days worth of work on it.Now, I need to be able to reverse the segments so we hear the translation followed by the Arabic language segment; what is the most efficient way to do so? I have two tracks in the same file: one Arabic and one English translation, both with labels; and the combined track of Arabic followed by English.
Should I 'highlight' and 'duplicate' each segment and then use the 'time shift tool' for many additional tracks? There are 39 segments for each track (Ar & En). Or should I just 'highlight' and 'copy/paste' and add another label in an additional track?