How to search/replace breath sound with a silence?

Report · Mar 14, 2020

I am recording audio books for commercial sale. Every chapter in a given book is recorded in a different file. I need to search and replace all and every breath sound with a silence in all files.

I have tried the suppress sound command and the reduce noise command after having selected a given breath sound but the result in not satisfying because it does alter the sound of the voice.

How can I do this? Is it just a question of adjusting the different sliders? Or what?!?

Right now I am manually selecting every breath sound and replacing it with a silence using a keyboard shortcut that I have created but it takes me hours to do so.

If there were a kind of search and replace command like in Microsoft Word I could select the breath sound and then replace all of them in seconds (instead of hours!)

Can someone help me with this?

Report · Mar 16, 2020

Dear Audition users,

I have found this 16 minutes tutorial on youtube explaining how to meet ACX requirements with Audacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnutKoBzmpA

I have followed the instructions :

1. I installed Audacity, and the two plug-ins : check ACX and RMS-Normalise,

2. Followed the three simple steps explained in the clip (The instructions are on https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_mastering)

Effect > Filter curve... > Manage > Factory Presets > : Low roll-off for speech > OK.

Effect > RMS Normalize: Target RMS Level -20dB > OK.

Effect > Limiter: Soft Limit, 0.00, 0.00, -3.50dB, 10.00, No > OK.

3. run the plug-in : Analyze > ACX-Check.

Boom! Diagnostic : My file meet the requirements!

DONE! PERIOD!

Report · Mar 17, 2020

Now that I know how to meet ACX requirements, I would like to be able to replace all breathing sounds with room tone using a workflow (or a favorite?) that will quickly identify them (breaths sounds) and replace them with room tone of the same duration.

Anyone can help me on this?

Thanks!

Report · Mar 17, 2020

Moreover, If I could apply in Audition the same working process that can be done in Audacity to meet the ACX requirements I would GREATLY appreciate it!

Thanks!