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October 19, 2023
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Recently I helped a guest host record a monologue segment. She was reading a pre-written article and she spoke very quickly – too quickly.
So in post I first tried time-stretching her track to slow her pace but it ruined the audio quality by introducing all kinds of weird robotic sounds.
So then I tried creating a Reaper session just for her monologue and slowed down the playback while maintaining the pitch. This worked well and sounded fine. I rendered it out of Reaper as a WAV file which I then added to the full episode session.
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This is where adding some pauses in between words can help to reduce the speed of the rhythm.
This is a great application for audio slow motion, Chris and Barry. As I wrote in my recent review of the AKG Lyra microphone, audio slow motion (if planned that way in advance or just in case if you think the speaker may talk too fast) is the only time that I recommend recording a an audio sampling rate higher than 48 kHz. https://www.provideocoalition.com/review-akg-lyra-microphone-usb-c-vintage-multi-pattern-multi-platform/
In those cases, the higher sampling rate used for the raw recording should be an even multiplier of 48, like 96 kHz or 192 kHz.