<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Elnaz,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Unfortunately the answer to all your questions is no, what you want to do is not possible. SILENCE command has been discontinued a very long time ago. It doesn't work on Windows PC or any newer Mac systems. I am afraid there is no easy, much less automated, way to do what you want.<br class=""><div class="">
<br class=""><br class="">Leonid.
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 22, 2021, at 00:12, Elnaz Kia <<a href="mailto:ek325@nau.edu" class="">ek325@nau.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">I want to add <b class="">one more question</b>: how can I silence the original file instead of creating a new file (<b class="">f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif). </b>I tried the +1 switch but it didn't work (error: invalid).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again,</div><div class="">Elnaz</div><br class=""><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 class=""></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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using the following command line to silence the segment in the transcription with the word NAME.</div><div class=""><div class="">silence +sNAME f0078c07raa_1.cha<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This creates a file named, <b class="">f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif</b> in which every utterance including NAME is silenced. </div><div class=""><b class="">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 class="">Is there a way to do that?</b></div><div class="">*F0078:<span style="white-space:pre" class=""> </span><font color="#ff0000" class="">bonjour</font> NAME .</div><div class="">*F0078:<span style="white-space:pre" class=""> </span><font color="#ff0000" class="">je m' appelle </font>NAME .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Question 2:</b> is it possible to use SILENCE with .cha files that have not been bulleted?</div><div class=""><b class="">Question 3: </b>Is it possible to automatically add bullets to multiple .cha files? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would appreciate any tips.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Elnaz</div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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