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Specialized audio recorder for Android

If you are looking for a voice recorder that can record audio continuously and skips the silence and can run for 4 hours unattended, then I think you should look into Smart Voice Recorder. It meets ...
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Windows Software to constantly record the last X minutes of audio entering the microphone?

You need What did I say?: works on Windows: yes, requires .NET 4.5 constantly records the last X minutes of audio: yes, configurable time span in the background: once configured, the window ...
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Windows software to swap stereo channels in real time

Equalizer APO might be what you're looking for. After downloading and installing (and restarting Windows), however, it will take a bit of configuration to achieve what you need: On first start, it ...
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Software to remove all empty space from an audio recording

I suggest Audacity. You can load wave or mp3 files (among other formats). Select the track and then go to the menu Effect->Truncate Silence... Here you can specify a decibel threshold and also a ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?

If you really would like to save some effort, install python, use pip install pydub to add pydub and then use os.walk something like: import os from pydub import AudioSegment OUTNAME = "Mixed.wav" ...
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Is there an audio player for Android which remembers my last position in a track?

Use MX Player for Android.You can even start the audio from the first or resume it from the last time where you have stopped it. It also works for video files.
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Interview transcription software

Personally I recommend either: footswitch2 (uses Vlc for audio) - https://sourceforge.net/p/footswitch2 or footswitch3 (uses Gstreamer for audio) - https://sourceforge.net/p/footswitch3 (...
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Building speech recognition for a new language from scratch

Adding support for a new language is pretty straightforward, you actually just need to follow the documentation and you can get to the point. You also need to have a knowledge of the scripting ...
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Fast mp4 to mp3 converter

FFmpeg is the media converter. If you don't want to use a command line to access it, use the FFE frontend if you're on Windows. FFE uses your existing installation of FFmpeg (which must be added to ...
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Mp3 tag editor that can import a csv file?

I would recommend you to use MP3TAG. I have been using this software for year. You can edit id3,APE,Vorbis comments jus everything in this software. Even multiple tags at once just like in excel you ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?

You can use FFmpeg: Free and open-source Runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, Android Is CLI so you can batch Can overlay two audio files, e.g. ffmpeg -i input1.mp3 -i input2.mp3 -filter_complex amerge -c:a ...
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Easy way to split an audio track into multiple parts?

If you are working mainly with MP3 files, i can recommend the freeware tool mp3DirectCut. The tool is able to split MP3 files lossless (without decompressing and compressing the original track).
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Windows program that will trim M4A/AAC files without any loss

I would suggest using FFMPEG + a GUI such as Avanti. FFMPEG allows all sorts of operations on the majority of video & audio files including trimming without recoding from the command line and ...
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Win10 volume and speaker control (split audio to more devices)

Option 1: You could use IndieVolume. It has the features that you have mentioned in the question. Here is a screen shot. However, the software is not free. You can download a trial version and check ...
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Open Source speech-to-text software for audio files in English

This is going to sound somewhat weird, but you can upload it to Youtube (assuming its not copyrighted material) and have it add its auto CC, and download that file. Far from perfect, but a possible ...
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Record a sound and play it back after a user-defined delay?

VLC media player Free and open-source Windows, macOS and Linux are supported Graphical, there might be a CLI way of doing the steps listed below, though I couldn't figure out how to play the stream ...
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No-nonsense mp3 player for Mac?

VLC Media Player is the best for your requirement Doesn't ask for any "Import" or "Creating Music Libraries"
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Alternatives for Dragon Naturally Speaking

There are other companies the best one among them is https://mmodal.com/ The software is as good as Dragon and less costly. Microsoft also provides this feature, but its not as good. Microsoft ...
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Detecting suspicious ultrasound emitters

I think that the SilverDog chrome extension could well fit your user case - at the moment it is a proof of concept that blocks ultrasonic signals from your browser by placing a audio cut off filter in ...
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YouTube video to text?

These 3 solutions took me like 30 sec to find by googling. Please do your due diligence and put a minimum of effort into it before asking your question here. There appear to be many more of thoose ...
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Free, lightweight, all-in-one, audio and video format converter

Xmedia Recode General Freeware Easy to use Portable version available (11 MB small) Uses ffmpeg (among others) Windows only Functions Video / Audio Conversion: XMedia recode can convert ...
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Android app for normalizing the volume of mp3 files

You can try MP3Gain Features: Works with all android media players Supports MP3 and OGG Can work in the background - keep doing what you're doing and get a notification when MP3Gain is done! ...
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Tool to redirect sound from output to input

There's a fair few ways of doing this, but the easiest is probably the following: Install "pavucontrol" and "audacity" from ubuntu software centre or via terminal. (sudo aptitude install pavucontrol ...
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Fast mp4 to mp3 converter

Try FFmpeg (open source, Windows / Linux / Mac OS X). This answer from Super User provides two commands that should work: ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 filename.mp3
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Output ID3 tags from a group of MP3 files as a CSV file

Command Line tools to batch output ID3 tags Here is my collection of ID3 tag viewers. I collected them over the last couple of months for another project I'm currently working on. You can manipulate ...
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Useful software to play back a song for playing in sync with on an instrument

I recommend and use this setup, as long as at least one foot is free: MIDI Footpedal ➔ MIDI interface ➔ iOS device For example I use Behringer FCB-1010 ➔ iRig Pro ➔ iPad ➔ app This will work for ...
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Useful software to play back a song for playing in sync with on an instrument

You could use Audacity to add a click intro at the beginning of your audio tracks. Load the track into Audacity. Add a click track. Trim the click track to the desired length for the intro and move/...
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A standalone software, or plugin to clean up audio.

Simply use the noise removal feature that is in Audacity - find a typical sample of the noise, i.e. a bit with none of the sounds that you would like to keep and use it as a sample for the noise ...
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Specialized audio recorder for Android

If you can use a laptop rather than a mobile then you could do this with python + pyaudio. The Record sample looks like: """PyAudio example: Record a few seconds of audio and save to a WAVE file.""" ...
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Open-source song/music recognition on Android? (alternative to Shazam/Soundhound)

There is an app called "Encore" which is a fully featured music player with a lyrics finder and music recognition. It's free and open source, Here are the links to Github, GooglePlay and the xda ...

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