SowasVon wrote: ↑July 6th, 2022, 7:31 am
Some of us breathe rather a lot between words and/or loudly and/or with added mouth clicks at the start of the breath when the tongue sinks down and then "detaches" from the floor of the mouth again.
I bet that those Librivoxers who leave their breathing sounds in either don't have this problem, or they've found clever ways to minimise what the microphone picks up (noise gate? special voiceover breathing techniques?). Do feel free to share!
For mouth clicks, I use the DeClicker plugin:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=52753
I only highlight the clicky area and reapply the effect each time. Otherwise it might take out too many clicks - ones I want, like T and K sounds.
One can adjust the settings; I change the "test frequencies between" lower setting at times to higher frequencies to take out the higher clicks (less likelihood of hitting those K sounds then), then when I want to go back to default, click Manage, Factory Presets, Defaults.
Usually I don't notice even "loud" breathing. Unless one breathes like an asthmatic rhinoceros, it's usually not a problem.