Hi Greg
I was about to say that my tutorials are not on YouTube, but I think someone on
the List put them there with my permission. To your issues:
1. Moving in small and larger increments. Shift-a does not do anything
that I can find. Fullstop and comma jump forwards and backwards by one second
by default. Shift-fullstop and shift-comma move by 15 seconds. Another option
is scrubbing forwards and backwards with I and u respectively. Zooming in
(control+1), zooming normal (control+2) and zooming out (control+3) will adjust
the scrub rate. Multiple presses of control+1 and control+3 will continue to
zoom in and out respectively.
2. Pressing k should take you to the end of the selected track, not
necessarily to the end of the project. If you are only working with one track
though, that is a moot point. Which version of Audacity are you using? I
previously thought, perhaps incorrectly, that the track had to be selected for
j (beginning of track) and k (end of track) to work. With version 3.2.3 with
only one track in the project, pressing either of those keys when the track is
not selected toggles selection on. Just in case, pressing Enter on the track
will toggle selection on and off. As a bytheway, it is worth going to Keyboard
in Preferences (control+p) and tabbing until reaching the Defaults button.
Pressing spacebar will allow you to select between standard and full. Arrow to
full and press Enter (there is no notification of which one is set). Then tab
to ok to close Preferences.
3. I suspect you are in the top section when encountering buttons. The
lower section largely consists of combo boxes. Like you, I assumed spacebar
would work. However, on checking just now I found that Enter is needed. After
all that, most of them are not terribly useful with the screen reader.
Let us know how you get on with the k key, and anything else.
Andrew
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Adding audio to a file that has been saved
Andrew, I watched your demos on YouTube and they were excellent. I'm having
trouble, however, with a few of the keyboard shortcuts. I can use the right
arrow key to move in very small increments through a recording. I thought I
could use Shift/A to move in larger increments but that is not working for me.
I'm also not having luck using the "k" key to move to the end of my audio file.
And third and final (for now), there are times, maybe after I've been in the
lower section on the Audacity window, that I hear which buttons are turned
on/off when I press the arrow keys. For example, I hear "Select" on. I thought
these would act like radio buttons and I could press the Spacebar to turn them
on/off. That doesn't work. Suggestions? Thanks to all for help.
Greg
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On Jan 8, 2023, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hi Greg
I will expand a little on Bob's response. As Bob said, pressing r will start
recording. Pressing r again will recommence recording from the end of the
currently selected track.
You mentioned that you saved the file. Did you save as an Audacity project or
export, for example, to a wav or mp3 file? I strongly suggest saving as an
Audacity project while working on the material.
If you have not discovered it already, this Guide to Audacity
<https://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-3.1.0-Guide.html>
written by David Bales for screen reader users is a great resource. If you
want some audio tutorials on using Audacity, I have done several on this page
<https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqaMwQC-taeGmBi3PWiV3EnNPCjK?e=wxof8t> . Filenames are
reasonably meaningful.
And do not hesitate to ask questions here as issues arise.
Andrew
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I'm new to Audacity, using JAWS on a PC. I have recorded the first 5 minutes of
a demo and saved the file. I want to open the file and continue recording from
the end point. How do I do that? Thanks.
Greg
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