Hi Nicole,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the tip. Audacity is next on my list. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Elnaz<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 5:24:13 AM UTC-7 Nicole Tracy-Ventura 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;"><div dir="auto">Elnaz,<div><br></div><div>We use Audacity to anonymize information in our audio files. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Nicole Tracy-Ventura</div><div>West Virginia University<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 22, 2021, at 02:40, Elnaz Kia <<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">ek...@nau.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear Leonid,</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for the fast response. That's unfortunate! </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Elnaz<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 9:42:24 PM UTC-7 Leonid Spektor 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"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Elnaz,<div><br></div><div><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><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 22, 2021, at 00:12, Elnaz Kia <<a rel="nofollow">ek...@nau.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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