The message still awaits moderator's approval, because of the wav attachment. So here it is with a link instead: http://stare.cz/.tmp/radio.wav Jan On May 30 18:35:17, hans@xxxxxxxx wrote: > On May 30 17:58:34, hans@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > The following seems to be a confused usage of the 'silence' effect. > > If I am reading it right, you trim the file at the first 2 secs of silence, > > see how long that beginning was, and cut that much from the file (again). > > Just let sox cut everything up to and including the first silence. > > > > Read the description of 'silence' again, > > paying special attention to the 'above-periods' parameter. > > Here's an example: the attached radio.wav is a fake recording > of the entire broadcast; the following lines cut just the 'news' for me. > > sox radio.wav normalized.wav gain -n > sox -V normalized.wav news.wav silence 2 00:00:02.5 0.2% 1 00:00:01 0.1% > > Tweak the constants to your actual audio of course. > > Jan > _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users