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At the bottom of the page about making Anki decks for minimal pair tests, Gabriel shows how to use Audacity to split a long audio file into individual words by manually selecting and exporting the words. Audacity can actually do most of this work for you if you use the Sound Finder feature (under Analyze -> Sound Finder). This will create a label track and automatically add labelled regions based on sections of continuous sound. So if you have a long audio file with someone reading words one after another, this will quickly create the selections for you around individual words rather than you having to select each one yourself. It is easy to drag the created regions to tweak them if necessary. And to make it even better, you can use File -> Export Multiple to export all of the labelled sound regions to files. By default, these will be named 1, 2, 3, etc. in order of appearance in the original file but, if you’d prefer, you can change the labels in Audacity and it will use those labels for the file names.
Thank you so much for your find! I have posted it on the website as a better way https://fluent-forever.com/chapter3
My thanks too for this tip.
As a result, I’ve been able to make .wav files for every Mandarin initial/final/tone combination (from Arch Chinese).
I’m thinking about whether to turn these into cards and learn them first rather than the 650 commonest words. Many Chinese syllables sound very similar to me and I think that learning them in quartets (eg ma1 ma2 ma3 ma4) will make it easier to learn their meanings as well as differentiating their sounds.
Gabe – Thank you very much for the great stuff you’ve produced / are producing. It’s absolutely spot on.
If you’re interested in this exhaustive collection of one-syllable Mandarin words, I’d be happy to send them.
Shauny B
If I have a lot of labelled sound regions (like thousands) which I want to export multiple to audio files,how can I use Export multiple in order to not have to click OK for every labelled sound region to be exported in an audio file and to just click ok once for all of them but in order to find each of the labelled sound region in a separate audio file as initially desired?
PLEASE HELP ME!
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