Questions about the SILENCE command

[Elnaz Kia]

Hi Nicole,

Thanks for the tip. Audacity is next on my list. :-)

Elnaz

On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 5:24:13 AM UTC-7 Nicole Tracy-Ventura wrote:

> 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 <ek... 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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