Changing the length of silence

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gideonrv
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Changing the length of silence

Post by gideonrv » Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:48 pm

I need a chain for batch processing, that changes the length of the initial silence of a file to 500 ms, and the final silence to 1000.

Is it possible, and how?

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Re: Changing the length of silence

Post by billw58 » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:14 pm

Sorry, the Silence generator does not appear to be supported in Chains.

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Re: Changing the length of silence

Post by steve » Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:28 am

gideonrv wrote:I need a chain for batch processing, that changes the length of the initial silence of a file to 500 ms, and the final silence to 1000.

Is it possible, and how?
How long is the initial/final silence? Are you needing to add silence, or reduce the amount of silence?
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Re: Changing the length of silence

Post by gasto » Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:31 am

Wouldn't truncate silence do that while setting min and max at a 500ms for the initial part and 1000ms for the ending part?

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Re: Changing the length of silence

Post by gideonrv » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:34 pm

steve wrote:How long is the initial/final silence? Are you needing to add silence, or reduce the amount of silence?
The software that I use currently, trims off the initial silence and the final silence, and just THEN, adds the 500ms/1000ms of silence.
gasto wrote:Wouldn't truncate silence do that while setting min and max at a 500ms for the initial part and 1000ms for the ending part?
I don't think it would, because the original silence can be shorter.

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Re: Changing the length of silence

Post by steve » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:55 am

That is not yet available for use in Chains.
The code to make it available has been written but has not yet come through to any release version of Audacity, so hopefully it will be available in a new version soon.
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