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Completely cutting silence out of an audio file

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Mar 15, 202626600 views
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I record lecture notes, and they contain giant pauses filled with white noise. Is there some way I can get rid of those passages completely? Using Audacity, I can reduce the white noise (i.e. turn it into silence), but what I'd like to do is crop those bits out from the file so I don't have to play…

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Try this, assuming you can use a sufficiently recent (post 2007, unstable) version of audacity. Summary of the suggestion, as requested by @slhck: Obtain a version of Audacity later than version 1.3.3. The stable version of Audacity is from 2006, an…

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