Hi Humberto, concerning getting the length of a track. If you move the cursor to the end of the track, you can then read the cursor position, which will give you the length of the track. 1. If there's only a single track, then press end to move to the end of all the audio. 2. If there's more than one track, select the track that you're interested in, and make sure the other tracks are unselected. Then press k to move to the end of the audio in the selected tracks. 3. One way of reading the cursor position is to move to the selection bar by pressing ctrl+f6, and then tabbing to the selection start control. If no time range is selected, then the value of the selection start control is the cursor position. Press ctrl +f6 twice to return to the track table. Another way of reading the cursor position is to press [. When there's no playback, this opens a selection start dialog, which contains the cursor position. Note that if you're using Jaws, the Jaws misreads this and says time zero. However, if you tab round the dialog and back to the cursor position, it reads the correct time. David.
original message: Hello Dean and all: Thank you for the links to the program and the tutorial. I have used Gold Wave for a long time and as a totally blind Jaws user, like its accesibility very much. The biggest problem I have is the noise reduction, which isn't that great in GW. After reading several posts about the new Audacity and the quality of its noise reduction to clean out old recordings, I downloaded and installed it. I am still no expert with noise reduction, but it seems to be better than Gold Wave's. I went through the tutorial, which is very complete and thus cumbersome, but I am still having two things I haven't been able to figure out: 1. Voiceover. How to reduce the volume of the playing track while recording speech over it. 2. How to tell the length of the track with some key stroke. I would also appreciate if someone can point me to a simple tutorial about noise reduction or applying effects with Audacity. TIA, Humberto To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
