I want to add <b>one more question</b>: how can I silence the original file instead of creating a new file (<b>f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif). </b>I tried the +1 switch but it didn't work (error: invalid).<div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Elnaz</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 9:07:18 PM UTC-7 Elnaz Kia wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am developing a multilingual corpus of L2 speech and I am trying to use the SILENCE command to anonymize the identifiable information in the audio files. I only found one similar question in this group from 2012, which already helped me a lot. However, I have 3 more questions/issues (two are somewhat related):</div><div><br></div><div>I am using the following command line to silence the segment in the transcription with the word NAME.</div><div><div>silence +sNAME f0078c07raa_1.cha<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>This creates a file named, <b>f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif</b> in which every utterance including NAME is silenced. </div><div><b>Question 1: </b>My problem is that I want to only silence the name (identifiable information) and not the rest of the utterance (marked with red in the following example). <b>Is there a way to do that?</b></div><div>*F0078:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span><font color="#ff0000">bonjour</font> NAME .</div><div>*F0078:<span style="white-space:pre"> </span><font color="#ff0000">je m' appelle </font>NAME .</div><div><br></div><div><b>Question 2:</b> is it possible to use SILENCE with .cha files that have not been bulleted?</div><div><b>Question 3: </b>Is it possible to automatically add bullets to multiple .cha files? </div><div><br></div><div>I would appreciate any tips.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Elnaz</div></blockquote></div>
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