Questions about the SILENCE command

[Elnaz Kia]

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

[Elnaz Kia]

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

[Leonid Spektor]

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.

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[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Leonid,

Thank you so much for the fast response. That's unfortunate! 

Thanks,

Elnaz

[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 <ek...@nau.edu> wrote:

Dear Leonid,

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[Elnaz Kia]

Hi Nicole,

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

Elnaz