MFD32 wrote: ↑May 5th, 2021, 5:14 pm
Kalamareader wrote: ↑May 4th, 2021, 8:41 pm
19:30.5 Needs an “
end quote”
33:03
as about the year 1769… You said
a
And since you are in there, could you please cut your ending silence to five seconds?
Hi Wayne. Regarding your edits:
19:30 - I know the quote marks you're talking about. If you scroll backward through the text you'll find there are no open quotes for it, which I why I didn't record it. There is an open and close quote in the same paragraph at 17:52 and 18:02, but after that there are no more open quotes in that paragraph. This also occurs in the very first sentence of the text (at 0:38), where there is a quote mark with no pair, and so I didn't record the opening quote mark there.
33:03 - I hear "the" clearly.
Ending silence - I can't seem to win here. When I export my Audacity file to mp3 it usually lops off a few milliseconds in the process, which I try to account for. When I listen to this file using VLC or iTunes, I get a dead-on 5 second ending. How far off is it? I have no idea how much to trim.
Cheers,
-Mark-
Mark,
I have no idea what happened, but I responded to your post last night and I evidently didn't post it and it has disappeared into the ether.
Here is the gist of what I said:
In regards to the 19:30 quotation comment, you, of course, are absolutely correct. I missed that there were
two quotation marks in the middle of the paragraph.
As to the 33:03 "a" "the" comment, I listened to it more than once during my PL and definitely heard "a", and listening to it again last night I definitely heard "the". I have no idea why I heard "a" multiple times.
And as to the ending, these are the numbers that Audacity gives: End of speaking: 36:31.7, and of total recording: 36:37.3, or just over half a second long. At least those are the numbers I get when I download your recording into my Audacity.
Good luck, and thanks for your hard work.
Wayne