Need help isolating conversations

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
June 12, 2017
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Hello, I need help enhancing and extracting the conversation in this file. I've never used Audition before and am fumbling along. I believe it contains a conspiracy to murder. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a link to the file. It has been converted from M4a to wav. tst9 -1st-40mins.wav - Google Drive

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stefan_gru

Inspiring

Your audio clip link is no longer available. It sounds like what you want to do is like what Gene Hackman does (with tubes and tape) in The Conversation:

The Conversation (5/11) Movie CLIP - He'd Kill Us If He Got the Chance (1974) HD - YouTube

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JacksonReganAuthor

Participant

Well, I split the frequencies so it only had the range of 85-255Hz, which is the range of human voice according to google, 85- 180Hz for females, 165-255Hz for males. There is a female and male voice. I amplified it heaps and attempted to remove background hum and noise, which i don't know how to do properly or with skill, it's made it clearer and some sentences can be make out, but i'm no professional and it need the touch of an expert.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

JacksonRegan wrote
Well, I split the frequencies so it only had the range of 85-255Hz, which is the range of human voice according to google, 85- 180Hz for females, 165-255Hz for males.

Google does not say that. It says that the fundamental frequencies are in that range. All the information required to gain an understanding of what's being said is in the range from the fundamental frequency to the top of the voice harmonics, which is more like 4-5kHz. That is also the range of most of your noise.

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JacksonReganAuthor

Participant

It hasn't been amplified or enhanced, the conversation takes place in another room. The word 'c**t' and 'f**k' are spoken alot.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I've had a quick play with this, and I can hardly make out a thing, I'm afraid. Even if it does contain what you think, it would never stand up as evidence, as whatever is there is far too unclear to be able string words together, never mind sentences.

Bob Howes

Inspiring

I concur with Steve. There's no usable audio there no matter what processing you try.

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