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How to remove translator's voice from audio
I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am
looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron |
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On Sep 1, 1:33*pm, ron wrote:
I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? *But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron You could try a Spanish filter. |
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ron wrote:
I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron There are programmes that will record speech via a vox switch - the recording happens only while the volume is above a given threshold. If you play back your original and re-record with this, you should be able to do what you want in a single pass. d |
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"ron" wrote in message
... I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron If the Spanish is spoken only in-between the English, you could simply use a software gate to mute the much lower volume Spanish. Some software packages also have a "remove silence" tool. You would need to set the threshold somewhere between the volume of the English & Spanish levels. If you're lucky, your software package will also remove the gaps for you as part of the remove silence operation. Bill. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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On Sep 1, 3:33 pm, ron wrote:
I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron I am new here, so maybe I don't understand the problem. Couldn't you just bring it into Audacity and cut out the Spanish parts and bring the English together? |
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"www.Queensbridge.us" wrote from Goooooooogle Groups ...
I am new here, so maybe I don't understand the problem. Couldn't you just bring it into Audacity and cut out the Spanish parts and bring the English together? Sure, if you have the time and patience. OTOH, there are ways of automating this process (or at least semi-automating it) since we have computers now. |
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"Bill Ruys" wrote ...
If the Spanish is spoken only in-between the English, you could simply use a software gate to mute the much lower volume Spanish. Some software packages also have a "remove silence" tool. You would need to set the threshold somewhere between the volume of the English & Spanish levels. If you're lucky, your software package will also remove the gaps for you as part of the remove silence operation. Indeed, Adobe Audition (nee. Syntrillium Cool Edit) will do both functions (threshold gating, and silence removal). Alas, not both in the same pass, but then I'm not sure I would want to do the removal before checking the first step first. |
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Richard Crowley wrote:
"Bill Ruys" wrote ... If the Spanish is spoken only in-between the English, you could simply use a software gate to mute the much lower volume Spanish. Some software packages also have a "remove silence" tool. You would need to set the threshold somewhere between the volume of the English & Spanish levels. If you're lucky, your software package will also remove the gaps for you as part of the remove silence operation. Indeed, Adobe Audition (nee. Syntrillium Cool Edit) will do both functions (threshold gating, and silence removal). Alas, not both in the same pass, but then I'm not sure I would want to do the removal before checking the first step first. I should have made it clear that the Spanish is spoken in between the English, so this sounds just what I'm looking for, thanks If anyone knows any other programs that can do both the threshold gating, and silence removal, please post names here. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge ron |
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www.Queensbridge.us wrote:
On Sep 1, 3:33 pm, ron wrote: I have an English talk with a Spanish translation in the background & am looking for a way to remove the translation. The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? thanks, ron I am new here, so maybe I don't understand the problem. Couldn't you just bring it into Audacity and cut out the Spanish parts and bring the English together? I think I'd lose the will to live after about 10 minutes using this approach |
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How to remove translator's voice from audio
ron wrote:
The English speaker talks, then stops while the translation is given to the room (and is picked up on the original speakers mic.) This means that the translators voice is only about 20% of the volume of the main speaker; I wonder if this could be used as a basis for stripping it out? But I'd also have to close up the gaps left after removing the Spanish. Is there a fairly rapid way to do this on a PC? I am new here, so maybe I don't understand the problem. Couldn't you just bring it into Audacity and cut out the Spanish parts and bring the English together? I think I'd lose the will to live after about 10 minutes using this approach I'm not at all oonvinced that auto-editing is preferable for this single event. And doing it manually is not all that much of a fuzz. Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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"Peter Larsen" wrote ...
I'm not at all oonvinced that auto-editing is preferable for this single event. And doing it manually is not all that much of a fuzz. We don't know either that it is a single event, nor how long it is. If it were 42 hours would that be different than 42 minutes? |
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Richard Crowley wrote:
"Peter Larsen" wrote ... I'm not at all oonvinced that auto-editing is preferable for this single event. And doing it manually is not all that much of a fuzz. We don't know either that it is a single event, nor how long it is. If it were 42 hours would that be different than 42 minutes? Perhaps. I was just considering the real world of recorded audio and I am not convinced that automated editing would work very well, just one thing that could offset it would be audience coughs. I have however no recollection of having seen the intended use of the edited recording described, and crude cuts may not be an issue. Coughs btw. recently caused a pianist to abandon the encore unfinished in Tivoli Concert Hall ... Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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"Peter Larsen" wrote in ...
Coughs btw. recently caused a pianist to abandon the encore unfinished in Tivoli Concert Hall ... Audience noise (including coughs) used to drive me insane when trying to do post-production on live recordings. But now I just write them off as "natural environmental evidence" that it is a live recording, not a supernatural studio creation. A far distance from early live broadcasts and recordings when they printed the program on silk to avoid paper rustling noise. :-) |
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How to remove translator's voice from audio
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Peter Larsen" wrote in ... Coughs btw. recently caused a pianist to abandon the encore unfinished in Tivoli Concert Hall ... Audience noise (including coughs) used to drive me insane when trying to do post-production on live recordings. But now I just write them off as "natural environmental evidence" that it is a live recording, not a supernatural studio creation. A far distance from early live broadcasts and recordings when they printed the program on silk to avoid paper rustling noise. :-) Paper rustling is as nothing compared to the now inevitable impromptu renderings of Grand Valse by the audience. d |
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How to remove translator's voice from audio
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Peter Larsen" wrote in ... Coughs btw. recently caused a pianist to abandon the encore unfinished in Tivoli Concert Hall ... Audience noise (including coughs) used to drive me insane when trying to do post-production on live recordings. But now I just write them off as "natural environmental evidence" that it is a live recording, not a supernatural studio creation. Mostly they are just proof of authenticity. But some of the time the person coughing is not in dire need of so doing. At a guitar quartet recording some years ago a young female in the audience ... the type of person who finds it natural to grab the next chair and use it for the legs ... was coughing endlessly. But strangely offering her just one small piece of licorice cured the dire malaise instantly. A far distance from early live broadcasts and recordings when they printed the program on silk to avoid paper rustling noise. :-) A modest audience cough or a musicianschair noise is very handy for reversemasking edits in the intermession between parts .... Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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