Good morning Steward: Yes, there's a simple way to do just that. Are you familiar with the audio editor Audacity? I often refer to it as a word document in audio format, because of the way you edit files with it. Just like Word, you have to select text prior to deleting or changing it in any way. Audacity is free and easy to use, and is very friendly with Jaws. You say the first 4 minutes of your file is blank? No problem. With audacity, all you have to do, is find the spot in the file where the audio starts, press the left bracket to put a placemarker there, press shift J to select everything from the placemarker back to the left, then press control K to delete the silence. Mike
Do you like to shake your groove with disco,? New Wave, or today's slammin hits? I play em all.! Join me, Mike B every Wednesday night from 7 to 10 pm on SonicRadio.rocks. We'll have a blast! www.sonicradio.rocks -----Original Message----- From: all-audio@groups.io [mailto:all-audio@groups.io] On Behalf Of stewartross via groups.io Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:02 AM To: all-audio@groups.io Subject: [all-audio] re taking the blank bit out of my audio file hi all, i have an audio file, the first 4 mins of it is blank, i want to take this out, using some kind of software thats jaws friendly, without loosing any quality, if someone can help me, and tell me how to do it that would be most grateful. regards stewart -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4144): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/4144 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/90395454/21656 Group Owner: all-audio+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/21656/405281159/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-