Levelling the audio in a recorded conversation
In a recent post I described my experiment with live online training.
I had recorded the session with an intention of creating a podcast from it. But the recording was very uneven. Since the session was being recorded on my machine, my voice was far louder than the participant's voices.
Such huge differences cannot allow for a professional podcast. One way of levelling the audio is by doing normaizing and amplification in Audacity. But it is very time consuming. Recently I came accross a tool that automatically brings sounds at different volume levels to the same level. You just give it a WAV file and it gives you back a modified file with levelled audio.
I still have'nt used it but it sure seems to be a useful tool for people who plan to publish podcasts of interviews or discussions they conduct on Skype.
The software is available at http://www.gigavox.com/levelatorDownload/
If anyone gets a chance to try it out, do write about your experience.
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Parag
Thanks for the nice info.I could download levelator(During down load on two or three occasions it indicated visual c++ error.However it indicated successful down load.Then internet password was asked and it failed to authenticate.
I was trying through my office which is networked connection.
However i could download it at home successfully.Yes the software functioned as promised.Of course i could not measure the decibels level but i feel it has leveled different sound levels.Thanks for nice information and showing a good project to do.(MAY BE I HAVE TO RETRY AT MY OFFICE PC)