Truncate Silence

[mikeypam]

I have tried what you mention. Since most end of sentence pauses are between 1.o and 1.5 seconds, doing this creates to many short silences at end of sentences.

[mikeypam]

Is there not any way to get the old feature restored?

[steve]

It appears that the change to Truncate Silence was made in 2010.

Compress all sound from .22 seconds to 1.00 seconds by 50%
and
Truncate all sound 1.00 seconds to 2.00 seconds to 1.00

I've tested a very old version of Audacity (1.3.14 beta) to see how it used to work, and I'm not sure that it worked in the way that you describe, or at least not in the way that I interpreted your description.

The old version had controls for

• Min silence duration
• Max silence duration
• Silence compression
• Threshold for silence

"Min silence duration" was the minimum length that a silence would be after processing.
"Max silence duration" was the maximum length of silence that would be ignored by the effect.
"Silence compression" was a ratio of "original length of silence":"new length of silence"

Example with some simple numbers:

• Min silence duration = 1 second
• Max silence duration = 2 seconds
• Silence compression = 2:1

With these settings:
Silences less that 2 seconds would be ignored by the effect.
Silences greater than 2 seconds would become the greater of: (a) half of the original length (b) 1 second - the "Min silence duration"


So now on to what you are trying to accomplish: What settings were you using?

[mikeypam]

I think we are talking about the same thing.