[Tutorial] Audacity for ACX - Remove breaths, mouth noises and meet ACX Requirements
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- This tutorial is for audiobook narrators working with ACX. I cover how to use audacity to meet ACX requirements and remove breaths and mouth noises.
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Hearing you misspeak makes me feel so much better. I want to do audiobook narration, but I tend to read faster than my brain can comprehend. So knowing I can fix where I say something incorrectly easily makes me feel so much better.
This is the most useful RUclips video I've seen in ages.
Dude, you just saved me $200 on an online coarse. I knew I should google how to do this, but your video is more than I expected! Such complete detail! You're simply wonderful. Thank you
This was the most helpful tutorial I found on RUclips regarding meeting ACX requirements. Thank you SO much for this!
PSA: I still don't know why Chains won't show up in older versions of Audacity but I did figure it out for the newest (2.3.0). They changed "Chains" to "Macros" and put it under a different/new tab: Tools. I hope this will save someone's sanity.
Thanks!!
you really helped me
thanks.
Thank you for clarifying this, so glad I happened to scroll, before fumbling through more wiki pages.
You did save my sanity!! Thank you!
Thank you. Yes, I was searching forever lol
Something that can help you visually identify breaths which don’t show up on the waveform: Click on the track name, and select “both” for the spectral/waveform display. Breaths show up as light blue on the spectral display, and clicks show up as bright red/white.
Thank you!!! 😄🙏🏼
This was the most helpful for me for sure...the link is where it's at!!!! Thanks a bunch.
Especially the part with the punch copy/paste plugin helped me a lot! - Since I´ve got a lack of lung capacity (I´m also not able to inrease the capacity with training), I need to take deep and audible breaths in between my sentences - it always annoyed the heck out of me, when I´m reading the scripts for my videos... Today, I finally had the first recording, which passed every ACX-Check!
Thank you!
An other way to get the same result: select the breathing, go to noise reduction, take that sample, and then adjust the settings to reduce/remove it but keeping your recording sounding natural
Jacob, thank you SO much for this. I've only just started and didn't know how to deal with the breathing sounds. Your video is so clear and helpful.
This was an excellent video on using Audacity. Best and most useful I have ever come across. I have installed the pluggins and use them. So much easier and faster. Wish I would have come across this a year ago.
Thanks Jacob. Nice to see your process in such a complete and clear tutorial.
This is the most useful Punch & Roll video I've found. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this!
Thank you, this was an EXCELLENT primer on getting my recordings ACX ready! Great work, and I appreciate it!
This is great content! Thank you Jacob!! I agree with Mapuana, I have listened to many and searched several videos for Audacity and ACX tutorials. I just subscribed to your channel. Again thank you!
Thank you so much! This helped me understand without feeling overwhelmed. Im feeling way more positive about editing now!
Excellent! Just what I was looking for. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Thanks for coaching. Very valuable and helpful video clip.
Excellent video - im a newbie narrator. I am also "device challenged". I learned a lot and you answered many questions I had. Thank you so much. You have a new subscriber.
Thank you very much for this tutorial! It solves the breath+click problems on so many levels!
Great teaching. I have spent 2 weeks ..guessing. God send! thank you!!
Thank you so much. I will be replaying this many times!!!
Great video! definitely the most informative one I've found.
So helpful for this VO newbie. Thank you!
Very informative. Great video! Was looking for Audacity ACX content.
Thank you so much for your tips and love your voice.
Thank you for this! It's going to save me so much time in my editing process.
Excellent video, it was really useful. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks William. Once I figured out how to set up the macro, I set up the ACX Mastering.
Fantastic video! I started out narrating just for fun, but have decided recently to try to educate myself in this area and turn it into a skill. This was extremely helpful. I will say however, that the "clean room noise" you were using was not clean on my headphone setup. I could hear some sort of bumping in the background. I'm using a Bravo Audio hybrid headphone amp with Sony MDR-XB920 headphones. I suppose nearly no one listening to audiobooks will be using headphone amps, etc. But I thought it was worth pointing out in terms of the importance of using quality headphones, etc. when editing your narration, etc. Again, thanks so much for sharing this information!
This was very helpful, thank you
This was very helpful. Thank you very much!
You are the best! I have learned a lot! Thank you!
Awesome! Thnx dude for the info. Very helpful indeed
Life saver, thank you!
Very helpful and to the point!
Very useful video, thank you.
your voice is incredible I'm sure you know. Wow!
What a wonderful video thank you so much!
Well done. Very useful. What I was looking for. Gave you a like and a sub.👍
Thank you so much for this! It was incredibly informative. Out of interest, when you made your chain did you just input the stuff from the Audiobook Mastering page? Or did you come up with the values yourself? I'm new to audacity and would like to use the chain function but am worried about making a mistake.
VERY VERY HELPFUL...thanks
great video! thanks so much!
Great overview for people wanting to get started. I’m a big guy and worried my huffing and puffing would be a serious issue. Maybe not so much with some knowledge
Well done!
One of the simplest & best short videos available on this this topic. Thanks. I'm very new and still learning before going "pro."My attempts still, however, sound a little tinny/trebly/mouth noisy (although they do pass Audacity's ACX Check) so I'm wondering how much I can afford to fiddle with Equalization without sounding too muffled? Personally, I find most audible samples of best-selling audio-books at Amazon quite muffled so perhaps it's simply personal preference . . . ?
I am not familiar with acx, But I am new and just starting out making youtube videos and this was wonderful, thank you!
Thank you so much !
Thanks for this Jacob
This is excellent. Thanks!
Thank you for this tutorial. Really, it was well done and much needed.
Would you consider creating an updated version?
It's too bad this doesn't have more views. It was super helpful thankyou!
It's only been up for two weeks. But thanks. Glad it was helpful.
@@nihilo503 my apologies for not checking the upload date. In that case, not bad traffic for 2 weeks! I enjoy your videos. Keep it up!
I have watched maybe 75 Audacity tutorials for VO/Narration and this is by far the most helpful one. Thanks for taking the time to put it together for us. I was manually doing some of the same steps without the plugins. Do you also remove background noise? My space is treated but it can still be a noisy environment.
I don't use any noise reduction, but I have a fairly good space for recording. I think it's best to avoid noise problems by making sure your space is well treated and your mic is good.
Agree, time for a new mic. :D
I learned so much!!! Thank yoooou! More videos, please! :-D (Subscribed!)
Thank you so much for posting this video. I learned so much and it's really going to help me with my recording.
This is great! I know this video is old, but hank you!
Jacob are you using a Mac? Is there a version of this for PC? The video was very good and I will have to listen to it a lot to get all of the shortcuts down. Thanks for exposing Audacity learning points, I have been learning about VO for just over a year and it seems I have much more to learn. I wish I could see the moves you were making clearer, your screen was small on my computer but the content was great.
Great video. But i have to ask - with this being a 40 sec clip of speech, wouldnt this become nightmarishly tedious narrating say, a 30 hour book?
Could one deliberately make some breathing and mouth noises at the beginning of the clip to create a more effective audio profile for the noise reduction tool?
New Version of Audacity is available for Win and Mac. Has a new Loudness Normalization that is amazing for ACX. Would love to see an updated video!
Thank you, sir!!!
Yes thank you thank from a new subbie
GOOD JOB BRO....
I'd love to learn how to get rid of unwanted saliva and click sounds when speaking. Really annoying when you have a perfect take and it's ruined by that.
RX8 Standard is great for this.
This exactly what I was looking for - Normally me as a Musician I am using Logic Pro X since many years and know how to master, but with regards, the ACX requirements its a bit tough for me. But this video, wow, really helped me a lot. Only concern now is the ACX Check. Even though I copied it into the Plug In folder, it does not appear under "Analyze" ..... Please can you help ? - - - Update: found the answer its its working now - You also need to enable it in the Plug-in Manager (use top item in either the analyse or Effects menu).
Thank you for this video! I’m just wondering why shouldn’t a usb microphone be used?
Merci beaucoup :-) !!!
It's not true that you cannot meet ACX requirements with a USB mic- I do it all the time.
I use a very nice USB mic and have had no issues...
Thank you :-)
Wait... does ACX require that there be NO BREATH SOUNDS? I'd have to comb through 8 hours of voice to find 6500 instances of breath sound to fix before submitting to acx? Isn't there a plugin or something - anything - that can fix this without spending hours and days on this?
Greetings, I noticed a number of mouth sounds internal to words... do you try and fix those as well? If so, how do you do so when the waveform is "dense" - I just cannot make them out in those areas.... I get the non-dense areas, the mount sounds stick out like sore thumbs and then using the pencil you can trace them out (if you zoom in on the left hand scale you get to a point where you see dots - and you can redraw the waveform).... but those dense areas.... sheesh!
Thanks so much for this video
But, I have a question. I record an average of 10 to 15 pages per day is that normal or I need to speed up ?
And If I need to speed up how can I do that ,please ?
What microphone do you use for the narration?
Hey Jacob, I'm just wondering when recording at home ok audacity (using a rode mic with pop filter) how strict are audacity on the background white noise? I'm recording at home and don't have sound proofing, and to me there is a little background sound but not sure how to reduce this.... As to reduce it I need to take a noise sample but don't have anything quieter than what I already have??
This feels cumbersome. One breathes a lot in reading 10 hours of audio books! Is there a better option? Or is it ok to be heard breathing? Perhaps the listener can breathe, too?
Just seems so time consuming (stone age) to have to manually copy/paste over every breath. Doesn't the 2.2.2 versions (& later) of Audacity have a feature like the "Noise Gate" feature that the old versions had?? Thx
Would you say that the ACX check AND CHAIN would good for most VO/VA work?
For the 2020 version are we adding the Macro_ACX only? Because I don't see equalization under Edit Macros.
The sound of your video and the sound in audicity, they sound differently I don't know why??
Can anyone help me please? I don't have the RMS Normalize under my effects menu. I'm reading and searching the audacity site and it seems like it should come with ACX check?? Which I finally managed to get installed but no RMS Normalize. I did at one point see it under my plug-in manager and enabled it but now it has seemed to disappear. I'm so frazzled for two days trying to figure this out. If anyone can help I would be REALLY grateful! :)
what sample rate and bit rate do you have in your quality preferences?
That's good and all, but am I supposed to manually do that for a 30 min audio file?
I can't figure out how to get the ACX Check plug in to work/show up on Audacity, does anyone have any tips?
Why not use noise reduction instead of punch copy/paste? What's the advantage?
A lot of things like ACS recommend having a small amount of room noise. Makes everything sound more natural.
And how can you eliminate the room noise to a minimum without affecting the voice?
DOes anyone know where the Punch Copy/Paste downloads are now?
great video, I did everything you said,and I am failing my ACX check... its driving me mad !
Great video. Thanks. One question though - I've downloaded ACX Check three times and it's in my downloads but does not show up in Audacity Tools or Analyze to enable
Josh Myer has a video on that if you go to his video list you will see HOW TO INSTALL PLUG INS I had the same problem.
so what kind of mic could we use if not a USB?
Total newbie here, but I could follow you. Thanks! I cannot figure out how to install the punch copy/paste plugin (Mac). I did Google as you mentioned, but a lot of unhelpful things came up.
I can't get punch copy-paste into my pc either. I've tried everything.
@@AsparroVideo I'm with you...my guess is that it's now called "Sound finder & Silence finder" under "Analyze". Since this forum dates back almost a year ago, I'm guessing some things have changed since ;-)
@@AsparroVideo manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_effect_generator_and_analyzer_plug_ins_on_windows.html#nyquist_install
manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_effect_generator_and_analyzer_plug_ins_on_mac_os_x.html#nyquist_install
Where is punch/copy/paste in version 2.4.2. I cannot find anything like it!
What are the limiter requirements for ACX?
I am trying to download the plug ins mentioned including ACX check but I get a pop up that says "there is no application set to open the document "acx-check.ny"". anyone have thoughts on that? thanks!
That happened to me too. I don’t know how to fix it and I’m unable to download acx check
So I followed the links to download the plug ins but the RMS Normalize and the ACX-Check both just lead to prompting to re-install Audacity but after it is done I cannot find the plug-ins. Can you or someone who sees this comment help with this?
I've got the same problem. I cannot install these plug ins and seem to be getting the "runaround". What am I not doing right?
You guys should look up noise gate an effect where you can set at which volume the mic will start picking up noise *removes breathing
Jacob - I need your help!! Can I please HIRE you to help me download punch/copy/paste...this audio book won't edit itself!!
Why is it when i run acx check and it says my audio passes everything. Then i submit then two weeks later Acx says i failed and does not meet the requirements. Is there an updated version of this acx check i should download?
same
Sounds frustrating
Are you sure this is necessary for ACX or is it just personal preference?
I cannot get the plug-ins installed no matter what I do. Maybe it's my computer.
whats wrong with a USB microphone exactly?
I keep failing my ACX check. says my RMS isnt between -18 to -23. i set normalize at -20 ( couldnt find a RMS normal in the insert area). Help?
I failed to mention it in the video, but you also need to download and install the RMS Normalize plugin from the Audacity Audiobook Mastering page. The link is right under the link for the ACX check: wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/AudioBook_Mastering
@@nihilo503 YES! RMS Normalize was my breakthrough. Glad it's in here.