Removing silence

[michael-15-3]

Greetings

  I am fairly new to audacity (1.3.7 beta on linux) and have found it
an awesome tool but am struggling with a small but repetive tasks
which consumes vast amounts of time.

  I regularly edit recordings from TeamSpeak (voice chat system used
mostly by gamers and MMOG's) and these have many silences in the
recording which I currently manually remove.

  I see there is an option under analyse to find silences ("Silence
finder") which works well, however I am unable to find a way to mass
delete all the silences.

  I would appreciate any assistnace in cutting down the time it take
to manually remove these silences.

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[Dave-211]

Hi
I think you have to look under apply and edit chains.
    THANKYOU DAVE-211

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: [Audacity-users] Removing silence

> Greetings
>
>  I am fairly new to audacity (1.3.7 beta on linux) and have found it
> an awesome tool but am struggling with a small but repetive tasks
> which consumes vast amounts of time.
>
>  I regularly edit recordings from TeamSpeak (voice chat system used
> mostly by gamers and MMOG's) and these have many silences in the
> recording which I currently manually remove.
>
>  I see there is an option under analyse to find silences ("Silence
> finder") which works well, however I am unable to find a way to mass
> delete all the silences.
>
>  I would appreciate any assistnace in cutting down the time it take
> to manually remove these silences.
>
> --
>
> R e g a r d s
> M i c h a e l  L  G r i f f i n
> [hidden email]
> http://www.griffin.za.net
> Fax : [phone]
> Cell : [phone]
> Please consider the environment before printing this email
>
> He who play in root,
>           eventually kill tree.
>
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> production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to
> Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK
> i700
> Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image
> processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com
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[uvw111-reverb]

--- On Fri, 8/5/09, Michael <[hidden email]> wrote:

  I see there is an option under analyse to find silences ("Silence
finder") which works well, however I am unable to find a way to mass
delete all the silences.

  I would appreciate any assistnace in cutting down the time it take
to manually remove these silences.

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You'll be wantin' Truncate silence

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[Gale (Audacity Team)]

uvw111-reverb said:
>> On Fri, 8/5/09, Michael <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I see there is an option under analyse to find silences ("Silence
>> finder") which works well, however I am unable to find a way to mass
>> delete all the silences.
>
> You'll be wantin' Truncate silence

Thanks. Just to note that where it says on that Tutorial:
http://www.richardcravy.com/?p=46

that Truncate Silence does not work on stereo tracks, it now does.
In 1.3.8 Truncate Silence will have a new feature to compress
silences by a chosen factor, if they occur other than at the start of
the region being dealt with.



Gale