Questions about the SILENCE command

[Leonid Spektor]

Elnaz,

	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.


Leonid.

> On Jul 22, 2021, at 00:12, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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