Hi Amy,

Right now,  Audacity is the best solution for both your questions from our experience.   We’ve need to to do it lots, both for people who have banked many authentic messages on one recording file as well as for folks for whom we are using pre-recorded media to create files to double dip.

Stay tuned…I hope to have an automatic process to do the editing/splicing of large files in the next few months.   It is actively in process…but if you want this soon, I would do the manual labor since, while active, there are moving parts that have to fall into place with this project.

John

On 1/18/19, 1:08 PM, "xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com on behalf of Amy Roman" <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com on behalf of xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

    Hi Listserv,
    I am working with a fellow who made recordings of his life story immediately after being diagnosed with ALS.  He recorded them on his iphone using voice memo.  By the time I met him his speech had declined quite a bit so I want to try to convert these recordings to wav files to use them for message and voice banking.

    My first question is, what are peoples favorite software for converting MPAs to Wav files.  I am currently using Audacity. My second question is do people have any suggestions for ways to chop a 15 minute sound file down into smaller recordings.  This is going to be time consuming.  Acapela wants clips that are only about 5 seconds long for creating a synthesized voice.  Thanks!

    Sincerely,

    Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
    Augmentative Communication Specialist

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