"Ville Koskinen" wrote in message
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To me it seems that you only need to detect pauses, navigate through
the audible stuff between them and make punch-ins. Perhaps you could
even place the punch-in points so that they would be located just after
the last "phrase", that is at the beginning of "silence". Then the
reader could make sure that the pause before the rerecorded section
would be exactly as long as he/she wanted.


Detecting pauses (by level) is no problem. You could even set how long the
pause would have to be to be considered a true pause. But inevitably
sometime or another you would pause more/less than the set amount (if you
speak like a normal person, that is) and with your system your system you
wouldn't even be aware you'd missed it until it's too late and you'd
overwritten what you wanted to keep (or be stuck with still having to edit).
People have already given you the best answer for how to solve your problem.
You're only hurting yourself by not at least trying what they say.