Re: [SoX-users] Silence with lead-in time kept?

[Martin G. <mar...@gm...>]

On 29/04/25 17:31, Doug Lee wrote:

> I've often wanted silence to allow for a certain amount of sound prior to the end of a silence period to be
> kept. silence -l handles the opposite, keeping sound after silence begins; so maybe -L?
>
> silence -l -L.5 1 .2 1% -1 .2 1%
>
> would keep 0.5 seconds of sound before each non-silent period. This avoids loss of lead-in sounds that,
> while short, are definitely noticed by the ear - start of air flowing through a trumpet or pipe organ, the
> consonant before a loud spoken vowel, etc.


You can probably achieve the same result by reversing the audio,

silencing it with -l and reversing again but I wouldn't want to force

people to do that; it should be a relatively simple change to make.


https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/sox_ng/issues/465


Thanks for the suggestion!


     M


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