Using Audacity Keyboard Shortcuts - Help!

[rita1075]

Hello, I am Eunah Choi.
I would like to ask about the keyboard shortcuts on the Windows version of Audacity for selecting and deleting audio waveforms.

I got my reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 cataloged, thanks to aradlaw who was the MC for last week's Weekly Poetry project and also did the work of editing for me.
I have recorded the sonnet with an app called ClearRecord which is
installed on my iPhone 4S, with iPhone's VoiceOver enabled. I am totally blind, so without
VoiceOver, I am unable to use my iPhone. I recorded the poem, with the VoiceOver speech sounds on so that I could navigate the iPhone screen. Anyway, after recording, the app gave me a WAV file containing my reading and I got my iPhone synced with my iTunes on my laptop.

Inevitably, the file ended up containing the unwanted iPhone VoiceOver speech sounds telling me which buttons I was touching and also some beeps and other VoiceOver sound effects, and I had to edit them out.
I tried to edit the WAV file using audacity, but I couldn't figure out how to select and delete
parts of a track using only keyboard shortcuts? Could some give me detailed instructions for
selecting and deleting regions of audio tracks on Audacity? It would be appreciated if someone can share information about hotkeys I can use for editing audio on Audacity. I use Windows 10 64-bit, and
a screen reader is installed on my computer.
I would like to contribute more recordings, and if I can do the work of editing the files on Audacity by myself, I will not have to bother MCs and BCs by asking them to edit my files before cataloging.
Thanks in advance.
Eunah Choi

[TriciaG]

Eunah,

I have split your question off into its own thread. That way hopefully more people will see it, especially those with more experience with the keyboard shortcuts.

I hope you find some advice!

[mahne]

Hi Eunah,

in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=28429
there is a detailed how to for JAWS users mentioned (apart from other stuff that might be interesting to you), I had a short look and it seems it's
pretty independent of the screen reader that's used and the used shortcuts seem not to have changed since audacity 1.3.13, which is the version for which the how to was written:
http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.13-Guide.html

Cheers
mahne

[gypsygirl]

I haven't tried selecting just with keyboard shortcuts, but this page on the audacity website has a list of all the default shortcuts with their names and a short description: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/keyboard_shortcut_reference.html

Would the iphone still record if you had headphones plugged into it? If that were possible, the microphone wouldn't pick up the commands.

Edited to add:
I've also just found a page on the audacity wiki for blind users: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audacity_for_blind_users
and it includes a link to a page on selecting: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/BlindSelecting