Any tips/pointers on speeding up spoken word?

Report · Jul 12, 2019

I've been experimenting with speeding up spoken word clips (with a corresponding video clip) and I think I can get away with speeding up by 10%, keeping the pitch the same. In fact I know I can get away with this because I've just published a youtube clip and no one commented on it!

Currently I just choose Effects/Stretch and Pitch and simply reduce the stretch to 90%, keeping the pitch at zero semitones. This seems to work ok but when I then run my other filters (single band compressor, normalise etc) and listen to the clip with good headphones I can hear some minor artifacts. Nothing the general public have noticed but I'm wondering if I should run my filters first and time stretch last.

Any tips on speeding up spoken word audio I should consider in order to preserve the integrity of the original recording?

Cheers

Report · Jul 12, 2019

unknownsailor wrote

Currently I just choose Effects/Stretch and Pitch and simply reduce the stretch to 90%, keeping the pitch at zero semitones. This seems to work ok but when I then run my other filters (single band compressor, normalise etc) and listen to the clip with good headphones I can hear some minor artifacts. Nothing the general public have noticed but I'm wondering if I should run my filters first and time stretch last.

If I was going to do this, that's what I'd do - get it sounding the way I wanted first, and then altering the pitch. I don't see why it should affect normalizing, but I'm quite prepared to believe that the sliced waveform might not behave the way a normal one would with compression, for instance.

Report · Jul 14, 2019

Thanks, Steve. Will experiment tonight

Report · Aug 02, 2019

Hi there,

Did you try the suggestion provided by the expert?

Please share the update.

Thanks,

Shivangi