Randomized Splicing

[sethtreace]

Hello everyone, I am working on a linguistics study in which I am taking speech samples, chopping them, and randomly splicing them back together in order to make the speech unintelligible. I got this great chopper code from this topic thread http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 19#p233319 and I thought I would put it out and ask is any one knows a way to randomize chunks of audio. I have thought about splitting the audio track around the chopped chunks and then manually moving them around, but perhaps there is an easier way. Thanks for any insight

[steve]

Was the "reverso" effect not suitable? http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46#p258146

Does this have anything to do with recording inter-dimensional beings?

[sethtreace]

We ended up going with the chopper code you suggested- which was super helpful! Now I'm trying to figure out a way to assemble the chopped bits back in random order

[steve]

I found this old (experimental) plugin and have updated it and enabled it for longer audio chunks than the original design. Give this a go (try the default settings first):

wavelet.ny

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It is called "Wavelet..." (which is a reference to early experiments by Iannis Xenakis rather than to modern Wavelet theory).
Note that this plugin is only intended for experimental purposes - there is no error checking in the code, so if you do something stupid with it, it will do something stupid
If you use it in your research and your research culminates in a published paper, please include a credit (and I'd be interested to read the final paper, if that could be arranged).

[sethtreace]

Thank you so much, steve! I will absolutely credit you, you have been a lot of help