Comments for Digital Cardboard http://digitalcardboard.com/blog Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on The SoX of Silence by Ranvel http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124988 Ranvel Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:10 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124988 This is such a good introduction and guide to this extremely useful program!

Thanks for taking the time to break it down for us!!

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by Scanner feed using Rasberry Pi ? - Page 2 - The RadioReference.com Forums http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124922 Scanner feed using Rasberry Pi ? - Page 2 - The RadioReference.com Forums Mon, 20 May 2013 23:45:09 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124922 [...] the radio traffic too often, then there is no value that will give really good results. Also see The SoX of Silence And be patient if need be.. I had to re-read that article over ten [...]

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by Jason Navarrete http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124576 Jason Navarrete Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:48:46 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124576 I can’t say for certain, but you may be able to add ‘pad 0.5 0′ at the beginning or the end of the filter chain to put back the silence that was trimmed out. If you can’t do it inline, then you can just run it through sox again as part of a batch file. Let me know if that works one way or the other.

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by Matt http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124575 Matt Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:36:53 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124575 I’m trying to do something similar to “Example 6: Shortening long periods of silence”: I’d like to trim the leading silence in an audio file, but leave 0.5 seconds of it.

In your Example 6, you mention “Note that SoX does nothing to bits of silence shorter than 2 seconds.”, but it looks like it does trim the beginning silence completely, all 3 seconds of it.

Is there any way to alter the command to leave a certain amount of silence at the beginning of the file?

Thanks for the excellent tutorial!

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by Jason Navarrete http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124569 Jason Navarrete Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:20:15 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124569 Glad to hear you were able to resolve your issue!

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by John http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124558 John Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:57:53 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124558 Nevermind – turns out my version of SoX was ancient. After updating to the new version, this works as expected. Thanks again!

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by John http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124552 John Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:40:13 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124552 This is a fantastic reference, thank you!

Unfortunately the main interest I have is in splitting a .wav file into pieces based on silence, and I can’t seem to make it work. I’m using this command:

sox testfile.wav outputter.wav silence 1 0.3 1% 1 2.0 1% : newfile : restart

The “testfile.wav” is a voice recording where I put 4 seconds of silence right in the middle of it to test. I expect to get “outputter001.wav” and “outputter002.wav as the result, but instead of I’m getting “outputter.wav” only. This new file is the first part of “testfile.wav” – right up until the silence just like it should be, but there is no second file with the other half of the original recording.. any idea what might be wrong?

Thank you for any help you can give me, SoX is very new to me but this would be amazing if I could make it work :)

]]> Comment on The Journey From MyFax to MetroFax by Jason Navarrete http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2012/09/14/the-journey-from-myfax-to-metrofax/comment-page-1/#comment-124536 Jason Navarrete Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:22:22 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=332#comment-124536 Good to know (but unfortunate, and I suppose expected) that NumberGarage doesn’t work with j2. Is this something you found out when starting the porting process?

A couple alternatives might be: (1) porting through a VoIP service like Callcentric and then back out to your final fax provider, or (2) porting to your local phone provider first

]]> Comment on The Journey From MyFax to MetroFax by Kayla http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2012/09/14/the-journey-from-myfax-to-metrofax/comment-page-1/#comment-124535 Kayla Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:48:32 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=332#comment-124535 Jason,

Thank you for this article, it’s very informative!
However, NumbersGarage doesn’t work with j2 companies anymore, and I also want to switch from MyFax to MetroFax. I already set up an account with MetroFax, but I am having an awful time trying to find a company that will work with porting my number from MyFax. (and yes, I did port my number into MyFax, my number is not a number assigned through MyFax).

Do you have any suggestions of other companies I can try as a middle-man to get my number over to MetroFax?

Thank you,
Kayla

]]> Comment on The SoX of Silence by Jason Navarrete http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/2009/08/25/the-sox-of-silence/comment-page-1/#comment-124500 Jason Navarrete Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:02:42 +0000 http://digitalcardboard.com/blog/?p=75#comment-124500 Pretty slick! I didn’t realize that Google even had a publicly available Speech API. I’ll have to check it out.

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