Phillip Blevins wrote: > Hi, > I've got a lot of speeches on cassette tape that I have converted to > .wav and cleaned up a bit. I remember reading somewhere that in radio > broadcast they will record talk show hosts and then somehow shorten > the space between words to that there is more room for commercials. > Has anyone done this or heard of a tool that does this? I would > also like to split the speeches up into about 1 minute sections > breaking between words. You might be able to do this with some sort of a gate. ecasound has some. > Also, I've got about 4,000 cassette tapes I would like to digitize. I > can do about 1.5 a day with it playing at regular speeds. If I do it > about 200 days out of the year I figure it will take me about 13 > years!! Do anyone know of a handy way to digitize at high speeds. heh. and I thought my ~1000 cassette collection was big. :) At least mine will only take me 3.25 years, by your estimate. > I apologize in advance if someone has already asked these questions > but I was unable to use the search utility on the list serve. Not recently, as far as I remember. It would be interesting though. -Eric Rz.