[linux-audio-user] Speeding up Speech

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

Phillip Blevins wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a lot of speeches on cassette tape that I have converted to
> .wav and cleaned up a bit. I remember reading somewhere that in  radio
> broadcast they will record talk show hosts and then somehow shorten
> the space between words to that there is more room for commercials. 
> Has anyone done this or heard of a tool that does this?    I would
> also like to split the speeches up into about 1 minute sections
> breaking between words.

You might be able to do this with some sort of a gate. ecasound has some.

> Also, I've got about 4,000 cassette tapes I would like to digitize. I
> can do about  1.5 a day with it playing at regular speeds.  If I do it
> about 200 days out of the year I figure it will take me about 13
> years!!  Do anyone know of a handy way to digitize at high speeds.

heh. and I thought my ~1000 cassette collection was big. :) At least 
mine will only take me 3.25 years, by your estimate.

> I apologize in advance if someone has already asked these questions
> but I was unable to use the search utility on the list serve.

Not recently, as far as I remember. It would be interesting though.

-Eric Rz.