Audacity
Audacity in an open-source program which you can use for audio-related tasks.
You can use Audacity to:
trim the start and end portions of recordings
reduce background noise
divide recordings into separate files
identify segment boundaries
add initial transcriptions of each segment.
Media Annotation overview gives a general overview of media annotation, and the required files.
Detailed instructions for Audacity are beyond the scope of these SayMore User Helps.
General steps for using Audacity
Do one of the following:
Start Audacity, and then open an existing file.
If you start from a video file, extract an audio file. Then, open that extracted audio file in Audacity. (You can use Show in File Explorer to find the file, and drag it into Audacity.)
If you use Audacity for its other functions (trimming, editing, and so on), bring the result into SayMore as a new session:
In the Sessions tab, click New From Device and select the Audacity audio file. If you have also done segmentation or labeling in Audacity, follow the below steps, keeping the filenames consistent.
On the Audacity Tracks menu, point to Add New, and then click Label Track.
In Audacity, click Play.
Select a segment, press Ctrl+B or Ctrl+M to insert a label, and then type the annotation.
On the Audacity File menu, click Export Labels. Save the file with an appropriate name in a convenient location on your computer.
To use that Audacity file as the basis for the annotation file for the SayMore audio file of the same name, in SayMore, use the Read an Audacity Label file option on the Start Annotating tab.
Then you can work with oral translation annotations and careful speech annotations, and with transcription and free translation annotations.
Note: The above use of the Audacity Label File will only be possible if you have not already clicked Get Started with another segmentation method selected in the Start Annotating tab.
Related Topics
Related Internet Sites
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/