Syntrillium Backup Forums :: View topic - How to AUTO split SPEECH in 10 min chunks?

BearPolar · Posts: 1

I am trying to create a CEP script to FULLY AUTOMATE
splitting a set of large (90+ min) .wav recordings of speech
(at silent spots, of course) into roughly 10 minute chunks.

Searching this forum I found discussions on how to split
recordings of MUSIC tapes/LPs on TRACK boundaries. I understand
how to do that, and why it's almost impossible to FULLY automate
that - some false silence will always get marked, and correct
ones missed.

But my goal is different. I don't care WHICH silence I cut on
(as long as it's long enough, and that's easy to define). But
once I put down 1 cue, I don't want to do it again for 10 min,
and that's the part I can't seem to figure out.

Essentially, what I'm hoping to do is this:
1) Jump forward 10 min
2) Find next silence and drop a cue for a cut.
3) Go back to (1) and repeat till end of file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If this can't be done in CEP but you know of another tool
that can/might do this AUTOMATICALLY, please let me know.
(I know of Mp3DirectCut which will do this to mp3 files
with a manual "jump 10 min", "find next silence", "cut"
sequence)

Thanks,
- Mike

Graeme · Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663

There's no way to fully automate this process but, once you have dropped the cue points (and there's only ten of them, how long can that take to do?) you can use the merge and batch commands to prepare a set of files for transfer to CD.