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Some users may need to voice the text male voice online. This could be any advertising text, fiction, or other text genres and styles that need to be transformed according to the “text into voice” principle, without resorting to downloading various programs to the PC. In this material I will tell you what online talkers with a male voice exist in Russian, I will give a description of the corresponding network resources, and I will also explain how to work with them.

The best online talkers in Russian

If you are interested in an online talker, then I will immediately note that in most cases the ability to reproduce text for free is limited to a few hundred characters in size, but for full functionality you will have to pay extra. This is due to the advertising nature of such resources, designed rather to demonstrate the capabilities of the voice engine, rather than to fully voice huge volumes of user text in a male voice.

So, let's move on to directly listing and describing the capabilities of the network announcer resources we need.

Linguatec resource for reading text by voice

The first online talker with a male and female voice that I want to talk about is the German resource Linguatec. Maximum volume The text that can be voiced is limited to 250 characters, which, however, is quite enough to demonstrate the capabilities of the specified voice engine. For full functionality without restrictions, you will have to pay real money.

To take advantage of the resources of the resource, go to it, in the “Voice Reader” sign, select the Russian language (Russisch), and just below, from the presented voices, select the male voice (Yuri). Below, enter the text you need (up to 250 characters) and click the arrow button (Play).

Oddcast - online speech synthesizer

The Oddcast resource can also act as an online talker, and the size of the spoken text is limited to 170 characters.

To work with this resource, go to it, in the language selection window (Language) select Russian, and in the window for selecting a male or female voice, select male (Dmitri).
In the “Enter text” window, enter your text, and then click on the “Say It” button.
The “Effect” option included in the engine’s functionality will give you the opportunity to experiment with various sound effects (whispers, robotic voice, accelerated voice, and so on).

iSpeech - service reproduces text to speech

Another resource called iSpeech, which has a Russian voice engine, is quite good quality. At the same time, the volume of reproduced text is also limited to about 200 characters, allowing you to voice the Russian text in a male voice online.

To work with the resource, go to it, find “Russian Male” in the list of languages on the left, enter your text in the window on the right and click on the “Play” button (you will have to wait a few seconds while the system processes the text).

If the iSpeech service is not suitable for you, go to the article about or read further.

The IVONA resource reads any text out loud

Another online talker with a male voice in Russian is IVONA. This resource has one of the highest quality voice engines, while, until recently, the ability to speak a certain amount of free text on this moment not available (may be available later)

However, the opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of the existing voice engine remains. To do this, you need to go to this resource Ivona, find “Russia” in the list of available languages, click on the button on the right, and, selecting the male voice (Maxim), click on the button with the arrow (Play).

A little more about voice engine standards

As for the main voice engine standards available today, the two most common today are SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 (“SAPI” is an abbreviation for “Microsoft Speech API” - translated as “Speech Programming Interface from Microsoft”). SAPI 4 is an outdated standard, created back in 1998, and is now rarely used, SAPI 5 is more modern, has better pronunciation, the latest modification is SAPI 5.4 (at the same time, SAPI has 5 free votes less than the outdated SAPI 4).

As for speech synthesis programs, one of the most popular of them is “Govorilka”, which allows you to voice voluminous texts quite efficiently, and with different voice options (both male and female). The installation version of the product usually contains a set of several built-in voices, but if these are not enough for the reader, then on the program’s website you can download additional voices for it (including high-quality paid options).

Conclusion

If you are interested in a speaker with a male voice in Russian, then I recommend paying attention to the list of network online resources listed above. At the same time, their disadvantages include the limited functionality of their free functionality, forcing the user to pay close attention to specialized programs (for example, “Govorilka”). The highest quality pronunciation among the listed resources is provided by the voice engine of the IVONA service, and it is precisely the phrases voiced by it that we quite often encounter in the Russian-language segment of the network.

In this article, habr, you won’t find any advice on which microphone is best to choose. For this question, I recommend reading the posts Microphones, microphones and more microphones. Part #1, Microphones, Podcaster's View #2 and Microphones, Podcaster's 3rd View.
You won’t find any advice about the quality of videos here either. If you need quality, I recommend reading a good article: Trying to translate and dub a video at home.

There are situations when you really like this or that video, but you can’t show it to your friends because they still don’t know English/Spanish/German/any other language. But you know him, and at the very least you can make subtitles for watching videos, and maybe even take a shot at dubbing, without having to spend 100 American rubles on a microphone, and even more of the same American rubles on sound processing software.
I'll talk about how to make subtitles or dubbing on something that is in almost every home.

So, since you're here, habra user, let me get started.
List of devices/programs that will be needed for voice acting:

Creation of subtitles.

As I already wrote, you can use the Aegisub program to create them. On the official download page there is an opportunity to download the Russification of the interface, but I was never able to configure it. But this will not prevent you from mastering the program - everything is intuitively simple.

First of all, you need to open the video file for which we will create subtitles. Select the “Video” item in the menu, and in it “Open Video...”, and in the dialog that opens, open our file.
Once selected, it appears in the upper left area of the window. But that is not all. If you now click on “Play” (i.e. turn on the video), it will be without sound. This is not convenient for us, so we need to add sound. This can be done through the menu item “Audio” -> “Open Audio from Video”.
Thus we will get the following window:

red - start time of the current text
green - end time of the current text
yellow - displayed text
blue - list of all texts, indicating expiration time

So, let's start creating subtitles. On the left, above the blue area, there are three keys. Click on the first one, “Play”. As soon as we hear the text, we press pause. Usually the speech does not start from the first second of the video - first there is a screensaver, or just music. That's why we don't start creating subtitles from the first second.
So, we pressed pause, and we see exactly what second the speech begins. We indicate this time in the red field. After this, you can continue playing the video and write down the text that should be displayed in the subtitles in the yellow area. When the phrase is logically completed, indicate in the red field the time when the phrase should be hidden from the screen.
Now you can move on to the second phrase. In the blue area of the screen, right-click on the current line of subtitles and select “Insert (after)” there. A second line will appear with a start time equal to the end time of the previous line.
We repeat entering text and adding lines until we have entered all the necessary subtitles.
I'll give you a screenshot of the project I did last.

If suddenly, during the process of creating a video, the timing of some subtitles overlaps with others, the program will highlight the “competing” lines in red, and you will need to align their display times.
In addition, the text is immediately displayed on top of the video, and you can evaluate the result of your work.
In general, the program has rich functionality, but I will not describe it - I indicated the main points, but I hope you can figure out the rest.

By saving a project in the format of this program, you will not be able to connect this file to all players, and you will not be able to upload it to YouToube. To do this, subtitles need to be exported. In the menu, click “File” -> “Export Subtitles...”, a window will open, in which we also press the “Export” key, and specify the file for subtitles (be sure to indicate the extension in the file name, I use subtitles in srt format, they load normally on YouTube).
Perhaps this is all I can tell you about creating subtitles.

Sound creation.

noise removal
normalization
volume change
auto-mute

But first things first.
First of all, you need to clear the room of all outside friends/relatives. The first 5-10 takes you'll probably laugh along with them, but then it's very annoying and makes it difficult to concentrate and record your voice properly.
Next, click on the red button on the top panel of the program - recording has begun. After that, we switch to the subtitle program, and there we also start playing the video. The current line of subtitles is highlighted in a yellowish color, and I always know exactly where I am in the text, what happened before and what will happen next. This is a very important point, believe me.
Of course, you noticed that between turning on the recording and starting the video, there was a delay while switching between programs. This is completely unimportant, and later I will show you how to get rid of this gap of emptiness.
So, two screenshots. The first shows the position of the windows on the desktop before recording starts.

And the second one shows my screen immediately after the recording starts.

For now, we are not very concerned about what happens in the dictaphone. Let him write slowly. If your voice sounds too quiet, don’t try to change anything now. It will be possible to process the sound only after the entire audio track has been prepared, otherwise the gaps between takes will be too noticeable to the ear.
So, we recorded about 30 seconds of text, and the voice began to “sag” - stutter, confuse letters and the like. You don't have to start all over again; you can just continue recording.
For this:

After this, to continue recording, we will only have to repeat the steps from the beginning of recording. At the same time, I recommend placing the video at the beginning of the previous subtitles (from the 22nd second in the screenshot), and when the video reaches the 27th second, press the red button in the voice recorder.
As a result, we will get several tracks for the entire length of the video clip. (on the middle panel of the recorder there is a very useful extreme button with a magnifying glass, which allows you to fit the entire project into the width of the window)

However, we need to work with them as one, so we select “Tracks” -> “Mix to last track” from the menu.

Audio processing

So, we have a single audio track. We begin to comb her hair.
First of all, you need to normalize the sound.
“Effects” -> “Signal normalization”. We leave all the parameters as they are, just click “OK”.
It happens that after normalization, “roosters” remain, due to which the entire sound is heard quite quietly. The screenshot shows an example of such a “rooster”:

To combat such moments, you can use the tool from the “Effects” -> “Signal Boost” menu (you must select this fragment of audio so that the effect is applied only to it).
I specified the value "-3.8", after which I removed the selection and applied normalization again.
I received this picture:

As you can see on the screen (or listen if you have already recorded a sample), the sound is full extraneous noise.
This voice recorder has a function just for this situation.
First we need to create a sample of the noise that we will remove:

select a fragment of the track where our voice is not present (only extraneous noise)
select “Effects” -> “Noise Removal” from the menu
In the window that opens, click the “Create noise model” button
remove selections
again select from the menu “Effects” -> “Noise Removal”
click "OK"

As a result, we get a clean track like this:

Agree, now the sound is much nicer, and it looks better =)
However, there are still random clicks and noises (and before each phrase I can also hear aspiration, as I draw air into my lungs).
Getting rid of this is as easy as shelling pears. Select the fragment that needs to be removed and select “Creation” -> “Silence…” -> “OK” from the menu.
For example, at the beginning I removed the keyboard sound from switching between windows and pressing the “Play” button on the video.

We save the project in the recorder, we are done with it for now.

Getting an audio track from a video

If the video contains nothing but a voice, and you don’t want to hear the sound of the original in the background, then you can skip the next two points.
However, I consider it a sign of good taste to have the original sound in the background (only if it does not completely cover my voice), and this recorder makes it very convenient to lower the volume level of the original track and return it in those places where I am silent.

I'm using the avitomp3 program to get an mp3 file from a video file. I am sure that in this part many can go their own way, the main thing is that as a result we get an audio track in an mp3 file.
Using the program is simple - click the “Add” button, select our file, indicate the parameters of the audio file (I recommend immediately saving it in a mono channel, for home video it will be quite normal), the save folder and click on the large round button with arrows at the bottom right.

Creating a mix of two tracks

So, back to our entry. In the screenshot, instead of an example, I took mine real job by dubbing. It is necessary to add to the existing track the recording that we just extracted from the video file.
This can be done using the menu item “File” -> “Import” -> “ Sound file…»
If you remember, I asked you not to focus on the fact that your voice recording starts before the video starts playing?
It's time to deal with this.
Usually, seeing two tracks at once, it is possible to determine directly by eye where our track lags behind the video.
The top track is from a video file, the bottom is the one I recorded on the microphone.

I've highlighted on the bottom track the time my voice lags from when the speech starts in the original video. Below you can see that the selection starts at the 6 seconds and 321 milliseconds position, and this chunk is 950 milliseconds.
Now we need to cut these 950 milliseconds from the beginning of the file. To do this, we simply write zeros instead of the number 6,321, and our selection moves to the beginning of the file.
Now, to delete this segment, it is enough to use the already familiar operation “Edit” -> “Remove Audio or Labels” -> “Delete”.

The track from the video file needs to be moved above our audio track and selected entirely. After that, apply “Effects” -> “Auto Mute...”
Specify the settings as they are on my screenshot:

And we get these changes in the track from the video:

This is the last stage of working with our audio track. Now you can save the project file itself (if you plan to change something in it in the future), and export these two tracks to an mp3 file.
You can export accordingly through the menu “File” -> “Export”.

Replacing a track in a video file

Finally the time has come latest application on my list. Let's open.
Open our video file. “File” -> “Open video file...”.
We indicate that we do not need to do anything with the video. We do this by selecting “Video” -> “Direct stream copy” from the menu.
And now we start working with audio tracks. Go to the menu “Streams” -> “Stream list”.
Now we have one track there, from a video file. Click the “Disable” button at the bottom right to disable it.
And add our mp3 file using the “Add” button.

If you wish, you can upload it to YouToube or any other hosting. For subtitles, we specify the file with the *.srt extension, which we created at the very beginning.
I can give a link to my file, which I did this way. If you don’t pay attention to the accent and my boring voice, then I think it turned out quite well.

Perhaps this article does not correspond to the level of the IT sphere of Habr, but I do not urge everyone now to go and record professional takes based on this article.
But I hope that this article will explain the main difficulties when recording your translations, or simply dubbing a video, and will allow you to finally do that very thing that you have been meaning to do for a year now, but still can’t find the time to study the issue.
I wish you good luck in your work, and if you have useful tips or comments - I will be happy to read them in the comments.

Many people love to read books, and they do it at home, at work, on vacation, and even on the road. Everyone likes various literary genres and trends; some people cannot even imagine life without their favorite books. Sometimes it happens that we need not only visual reading, but also voice reading of the text (this can be implemented on various sites with accessible content).

Here we will come to the aid of various Internet sites and resources that have voice engines and allowing the user to reproduce texts in different voices. What is online voice dubbing? What sites and services are designed for this type of work and how to quickly use them?

Useful video on the topic (1 minute):

Online text reading

Most often, voice-over of text online is quite simple and is, rather, a means aimed at increasing the capabilities of the engine chosen by the user, rather than at voice-over of large and long text files. Free voiceover of text files on many sites it will be limited in volume to 250–300 characters, and for full use of the site to reproduce larger volumes of texts you will have to pay your own money.

The scheme of working with such sites is similar everywhere: first you go to the selected site, place the one you need in the window text file and click on the play icon. The site plays your file, and you listen and try to understand whether you liked the site and whether it’s worth working with it further.

Programs for voicing text

The network has many services that can read text files, but we will present you only the most popular:

Acapela service.

One of the very first resources designed for voice reproduction of text. The engine has quite high quality voice acting, also presented here choice of male or female voice at your request (Russian language is represented by only one female voice, Alyona). Number of characters provided for free version reproductions, up to 300; for larger texts you will have to pay a fee.

To use the site's capabilities, first go to it. In the left window, select the language you need, change English to Russian, enter the text in the “tupe your text her” window and tick the phrase “I agree with text and condition”. Next, to listen to the text, click on the Listen icon.

Google Translate service.

This translator from Google systems can also be used as a voiceover for some texts. The advantages of the site are the absence of strict restrictions on several hundred characters and absolutely free use site. The main disadvantage of the site is its voice acting, since it can be several times inferior to sites with paid content.

To listen to the text, just go to the website, insert your text and click on the speaker icon. Playback will start automatically.

Linguatec service.

Another resource that also has a character limit. Here volume in playback up to 250 characters (per full use The site also requires payment), and the quality of voice acting on this site cannot be called the best.

To listen to your text, you need to go to the website and select Russian in the language settings; you will also have a choice of voices, male or female. Afterwards, you need to paste your text into the empty window and click on the play button at the bottom of the screen.

Text - to – Speech service.

One of many talkers, its work is similar to the previous ones. Here number of free symbols much higher - about 1000, voice acting and playback are at a decent level. Use is possible after visiting the site. Here you change the language from English to Russian and enter the text you need in the window. Then you should click on the Say it icon.

IVONA service.

Another popular online service for reading text files. This resource has the most high-quality and convenient engine from the above sites. But the disadvantage of the site is that it is exclusively paid work. If previously it was possible to listen to several offers on the site and test the quality, now this is no longer possible.

Several more programs for reading text by voice

On the Internet there are talkers not only with online work, but also those that can be easily downloaded to your Personal Computer. The most famous of them are Govorilka and Sacrament Talker.

Talker program.

A small program for reading any text file via voice playback. There is a possibility convert read text into files formats such as wav and mp3 audio. The size of the file that is played in the program should not exceed 2 gigabytes; there is also a convenient adjustment of reading speed, voice volume and highlighting of what you read at your request. To work with the program, you need to download it from an Internet resource, install it on your PC and run it. Next, enter the text file into the empty window and click on the file playback icon.

Sacrament Talker program.

Another source for dubbing your file is the Sacrament Talker program. This resource has its own universal engine Sakrament TTS Engine 3.0 and six different voices in Russian. The program is capable of working with voluminous and large text files, while the program has excellent sound, not inferior to other online sites and PC programs.

Working with text here is carried out in the same way as in the previous program.

Application for reproducing text by voice on a mobile device

There are many mobile applications for reading books that have built-in voice reading of text materials in their functionality. This function can be used any user application data. Among these readers are: Cool Reader, Normad Reader, FBReader, EBookDroid and many others. All of these programs have automatic function reading documents, to use them the user must view the program settings.

conclusions

To reproduce text online by voice, you can use many different programs, both free and paid, at your discretion. Wherein V free programs The number of characters is unlimited, but in paid ones it is limited to several hundred; for a larger volume of text in this case you will have to pay. Which site you should choose and which one to use is up to you to decide.

Hello, friends. There are people who have probably encountered such a phenomenon as voiceover of text. This can be done both online and using tools installed on your computer. This technology is called a speech synthesizer. It is very common on the Internet, as well as on smartphones and computers.

The advantages of voicing text using a synthesizer allows you to convert text into voice. This way, you will be able to listen to your favorite books that are not in audio format or your favorite articles. Provided that you don’t want to or are just too lazy to read something.

In this article I will try to talk in detail about services that allow you to convert text into voice. Let's look at programs that allow you to do this procedure.

Voice over text online using services

There are a lot of services on the Internet that allow you to voice the wording, but progress has not yet reached worthwhile results. What I mean? Most text-to-speech synthesizers have a lot of disadvantages, which I will now tell you about:

Robotic or unpleasant voice;
Small volume of reproduced text;
Full functionality is available for a fee;
Many “speakers,” so to speak, are unable to correctly emphasize certain words, or even reproduce some of them incorrectly.

As you can see, there are shortcomings, but some services are worse, some are better. Now I’ll tell you about several worthwhile options, and it’s up to you to decide which one to use.

TNR JayJay

Voiceover of text is possible using the specified utility. Its interesting feature is that it can speak your name in Japanese. So to speak, a comic program. She herself does not support Japanese, but simply says your first and last names in Japanese, selecting the necessary letters. Good for anime lovers.

Balabolka

This synthesizer uses sound engines built into PCs. Works for many text formats– doc, html. Rtf. You can insert text, change the font and its size. There is a spell check function and a lot of interesting things.

Govorun+

It can only use the engines in the system, but this is probably a plus, since you can choose any one. The program itself is capable of this:

Use txt or rtf text format;
To Work with command line(I don’t know why);
Integration into the text system. That is, from any application you can voice words using a talker.
Often shows funny aphorisms, quotes and jokes;
Converts the document to wav format.

Well, and much more. If you want to use it, here is the download link: https://www.softportal.com/software-886-govorun.html

Foxit Reader

Enough popular program for reading documents of various formats. Here you will find a huge number of functions for working with documents. There is also a function " Read a document out loud", which is located on the " View».

Voice over text on smartphones

I won't go into too much detail. There are a ton of apps for reading text on Android and iOS, and at least one has a read-aloud function. I don’t use iOS, but I will list the main Android programs that I have used. They have the function of speaking words out loud.

FBReader

To use the Listening Reading feature. In additional modules you need to load "TTS+". Downloaded from Play Market. After this, the “Read aloud (+)” function will appear in the drop-down menu with three dots.

Approximately the same functionality can be found in Cool Reader, EBookDroid, Nomad Reader and many others.

I hope you liked this article and will share it on in social networks. We looked at 14 methods, which include voicing text with a voice online and voicing text using programs for a PC and phone. If you have your own suggestions, write them in the comments, I will be glad to study them.

I'll talk about how to make subtitles or voice-overs for a short video using tools that are found in almost every home.

In this article, you, dear reader, will not find advice on which microphone is best to choose. For this question, I recommend reading the posts Microphones, microphones and more microphones. Part #1, Microphones, podcaster's view #2 and Microphones, podcaster's 3rd view, which are on Habré.

If you liked a short video, but you can’t show it to your friends because they still don’t know English/Spanish/German/any other language, then this is where I will tell you how to create subtitles for watching videos, and if you dare , then you can voice the video yourself, without having to spend 100 American rubles on a microphone, and even more of the same American rubles on sound processing software.

So, since you are here, my friend, it means you are interested in this topic, and I will start.

List of devices/programs that will be needed for voice acting:

Creation of subtitles.

First of all, you need to open the video file for which we will create subtitles. Select the “Video” item in the menu, and in it “Open Video...”, and in the dialog that opens, open our file.

Once selected, it appears in the upper left area of the window. But that is not all. If you now click on “Play” (i.e. turn on the video), it will be without sound. This is not convenient for us, so we need to add sound. This can be done through the menu item “Audio” -> “Open Audio from Video”.

Thus we will get the following window:

red - start time of the current text
green - end time of the current text
yellow - displayed text
blue - list of all texts, indicating expiration time

So, we pressed pause, and we see exactly what second the speech begins. We indicate this time in the red field. After this, you can continue playing the video and write down the text that should be displayed in the subtitles in the yellow area. When the phrase is logically completed, indicate in the red field the time when the phrase should be hidden from the screen.

Now you can move on to the second phrase. In the blue area of the screen, right-click on the current line of subtitles and select “Insert (after)” there. A second line will appear with a start time equal to the end time of the previous line.

We repeat entering text and adding lines until we have entered all the necessary subtitles.

I'll give you a screenshot of the project I did last.

In addition, the text is immediately displayed on top of the video, and you can evaluate the result of your work.

In general, the program has rich functionality, but I will not describe it - I indicated the main points, but I hope you can figure out the rest.

Perhaps this is all I can tell you about creating subtitles.

Sound creation.

noise removal
normalization
volume change
auto-mute

But first things first.

First of all, you need to clear the room of all outside friends/relatives. The first 5-10 takes you'll probably laugh along with them, but then it's very annoying and makes it difficult to concentrate and record your voice properly.

Next, click on the red button on the top panel of the program - recording has begun. After that, we switch to the subtitle program, and there we also start playing the video. The current line of subtitles is highlighted in a yellowish color, and I always know exactly where I am in the text, what happened before and what will happen next. This is a very important point, believe me.

Of course, you noticed that between turning on the recording and starting the video, there was a delay while switching between programs. This is completely unimportant, and later I will show you how to get rid of this gap of emptiness.

So, two screenshots. The first shows the position of the windows on the desktop before recording starts.

And the second one shows my screen immediately after the recording starts.

For now, we don't really care about what happens in the recorder. Let him write slowly. If your voice sounds too quiet, don’t try to change anything now. It will be possible to process the sound only after the entire audio track has been prepared, otherwise the gaps between takes will be too noticeable to the ear.

So, we recorded about 30 seconds of text, and the voice began to “sag” - stutter, confuse letters and the like. You don't have to start all over again; you can just continue recording.

For this:

As a result, we will get several tracks for the entire length of the video clip. (on the middle panel of the recorder there is a very useful extreme button with a magnifying glass, which allows you to fit the entire project into the width of the window)

However, we need to work with them as one, so we select “Tracks” -> “Mix to last track” from the menu.

Audio processing

So, we have a single audio track. We begin to comb her hair.

First of all, you need to normalize the sound.

“Effects” -> “Signal normalization”. We leave all the parameters as they are, just click “OK”.

It happens that after normalization, “roosters” remain, due to which the entire sound is heard quite quietly. The screenshot shows an example of such a “rooster”:

To combat such moments, you can use the tool from the “Effects” -> “Signal Boost” menu (you must select this fragment of audio so that the effect is applied only to it).

I specified the value “-3.8”, after which I removed the selection and applied normalization again.

I received this picture:

As you can see in the screenshot (or listen if you have already recorded a sample), the sound is full of extraneous noise.

This voice recorder has a function just for this situation.

First we need to create a sample of the noise that we will remove:

select a fragment of the track where our voice is not present (only extraneous noise)
select “Effects” -> “Noise Removal” from the menu
In the window that opens, click the “Create noise model” button
remove selections
again select from the menu “Effects” -> “Noise Removal”
click "OK"

As a result, we get a clean track like this:

Agree, now the sound is much nicer, and it looks better =)

However, there are still random clicks and noises (and before each phrase I can also hear aspiration, as I draw air into my lungs).

Getting rid of this is as easy as shelling pears. Select the fragment that needs to be removed and select “Creation” -> “Silence…” -> “OK” from the menu.

For example, at the beginning I removed the keyboard sound from switching between windows and pressing the “Play” button on the video.

We save the project in the recorder, we are done with it for now.

Getting an audio track from a video

However, I consider the sound of the original in the background to be a sign of good taste (only if it does not completely cover my voice), because I cannot convey all the emotions that the author of the video intended, and this recorder makes it very convenient to lower the volume level of the original track and return him in those places where I am silent.

I'm using the avitomp3 program to get an mp3 file from a video file. I am sure that in this part many can go their own way, the main thing is that as a result we get an audio track in an mp3 file.

Using the program is simple - click the “Add” button, select our file, indicate the parameters of the audio file (I recommend immediately saving it in a mono channel, for home video it will be quite normal), the save folder and click on the large round button with arrows at the bottom right.

Creating a mix of two tracks

So, back to our entry. In the screenshot, instead of an example, I took my real voice-over work. It is necessary to add to the existing track the recording that we just extracted from the video file.

This can be done by selecting the menu item “File” -> “Import” -> “Sound file...”

If you remember, I asked you not to focus on the fact that your voice recording starts before the video starts playing?

It's time to deal with this.

Usually, seeing two tracks at once, it is possible to determine directly by eye where our track lags behind the video.

The top track is from a video file, the bottom is the one I recorded on the microphone.

Now we need to cut these 950 milliseconds from the beginning of the file. To do this, we simply write zeros instead of the number 6,321, and our selection moves to the beginning of the file.

Now, to delete this segment, it is enough to use the already familiar operation “Edit” -> “Remove Audio or Labels” -> “Delete”.

The track from the video file needs to be moved above our audio track and selected entirely. After that, apply “Effects” -> “Auto Mute...”

Specify the settings as they are on my screenshot:

And we get these changes in the track from the video:

This is the last stage of working with our audio track. Now you can save the project file itself (if you plan to change something in it in the future), and export these two tracks to an mp3 file.

You can export accordingly through the menu “File” -> “Export”.

Replacing a track in a video file

It's finally time for the last app on my list. Open VirtualDubMod.
Open our video file. “File” -> “Open video file...”.
We indicate that we do not need to do anything with the video. We do this by selecting “Video” -> “Direct stream copy” from the menu.
And now we start working with audio tracks. Go to the menu “Streams” -> “Stream list”.
Now we have one track there, from a video file. Click the “Disable” button at the bottom right to disable it.
And add our mp3 file using the “Add” button.