Questions about the SILENCE command

[Elnaz Kia]

I want to add *one more question*: how can I silence the original file 
instead of creating a new file (*f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif). *I tried the +1 
switch but it didn't work (error: invalid).

Thanks again,
Elnaz

On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 9:07:18 PM UTC-7 Elnaz Kia wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 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):
>
> I am using the following command line to silence the segment in the 
> transcription with the word NAME.
> silence +sNAME f0078c07raa_1.cha
>
> This creates a file named, *f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif* in which every 
> utterance including NAME is silenced. 
> *Question 1: *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). *Is there a way to do that?*
> *F0078: bonjour NAME .
> *F0078: je m' appelle NAME .
>
> *Question 2:* is it possible to use SILENCE with .cha files that have not 
> been bulleted?
> *Question 3: *Is it possible to automatically add bullets to multiple 
> .cha files? 
>
> I would appreciate any tips.
>
> Thanks,
> Elnaz
>

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