I have an mp3 file where is a dialog with two voices and oneof the voices is very quiet.Is there a command or application that is able the detect thequiet passages and amplify them? The two voices are alternating.I already tried to do it manually with Audacity but this is verytime-consuming job.
Amplify quiet passages in an mp3 file
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The best way to do this is a Dynamic Range Compressor. Audacity has one built-in, under Filters->Compressor.This is, essentially, a program that removes the range between quiet sounds and loud sounds. It's surprisingly easy to use.Set the Threshold value to something very low. Set the Noise floor to around -30DB. Set the ratio to a very high fraction -- Most of the time, I max it out at 10:1. Then check the make-up gain for 0db box.Set both the attack and decay time to the lowest possible values. These are useful when applying compressors to music, but for speech, they just make it sound weird. Here's an example. I made a quick audio file, which contains myself speaking both very softly, and very loudly (using the Windows version because I happened to be booted into Windows while answering this, but the compressor interface is almost exactly the same on all platforms):Now, I apply the Compressor filter to it:And, viola, the quiet parts and the loud parts are roughly the same volume.