Questions about the SILENCE command

[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Leonid,

Thank you so much for the fast response. That's unfortunate! 

Thanks,
Elnaz

On Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 9:42:24 PM UTC-7 Leonid Spektor wrote:

> 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 <ek... 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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