How to stop recording after x minutes of silence in Audacity?

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I am using Audacity to record sound from webinar recordings.  There could be a few minutes of silence during the webinar.

I want to set up Audacity to stop recording

  • the best would be after, let's say, one hour when the silence is longer than five minutes.  Because I do know how long the webinar is.
  • or just after x minutes of silence.

Is that possible to set up in the current version of Audacity (v2.0.3)?  If not, is there any other way I can do an unattended recording of an audio segment whose (approximate) length I know in advance, without risking cutting off before it ends or recording hours of silence?

Radek

Posted 2013-03-24T01:12:34.387

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