Questions about the SILENCE command

[Nicole Tracy-Ventura]

Elnaz,

We use Audacity to anonymize information in our audio files. 

Best,

Nicole Tracy-Ventura
West Virginia University



> On Jul 22, 2021, at 02:40, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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