Re: [Audacity-devel] New Plug-in idea & Q's

[Steve F. <ste...@gm...>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 04:32, David Franco <cal...@gm...> wrote:

> To whom it may interest:
> Preferably an dev with some exp creating plug-ins for audacity.
>
> My idea for a plug-in is very simple, however I have 0 coding abilities of
> any sort.  So I am not aware of how easy or difficult this would be to
> create.  I believe it would fall under the audio analyzing section of
> plug-ins,  could be wrong.
> I will try to explain in simplest terms, let me know if more details are
> needed.
>
> My goal in sending this is to obtain advice, and to find out what people
> think, maybe its a waste of time, maybe this already exists, or there is a
> better way.   If not, do you think it would be useful for others?   I would
> use it.
>
> -----------
> So I want a plug-in that can analyze a set of audio tracks and detect
> where or when there is sound in more than one track at any given time.
>

This can be  done fairly easily with a "Nyquist plug-in" (see:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist.html).

Getting started with Nyquist is a fairly steep learning curve, but we have
a forum board for Nyquist where we can give you a lot of help. If you post
this same question to this part of the Audacity forum:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewforum.php?f=42 I'll be happy to help.

Steve




> ------------
> Example to its application:
> So I have a recording of a large group of people.  A podcast per se. Each
> person is recorded on their own track.   The recording is about 120 minutes
> long.  Most of the time, of course, only one person is talking.
>  Inevitably, there are times when more than one person speaks at a given
> time.   Since they are synced and in separate tracks,  I separate the
> voices in time so that they are audible.  Some I silence... because
> naturally they stop if they are interrupting...  sometimes people tend to
> stutter when someone is speaking over them...  etc.   When I clean up th
> audio for this podcast,   it is very time-consuming.    Listening to all of
> it of course.    I would love a plugin that can make a label at every
> instance when certain conditions are met.    Like sound in more then one
> track at a time, for longer than .25 seconds...  or just... at all...
> And i can go in and listen to those individually.    The label can be for
> just he beginning of it... and make a separate label for every 30 seconds
> after the first label was made..   if another instance occurs.
>
> Hope this was enough detail, excuse me if I wrote a book.
> Thanks for reading!   Goodbye!
>
> I look forward to any feedback
>
> ---The best to all
>
> DAVID FRANCO
>
>
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