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Glenn

Is there a software that will filter out unwanted music from documentaries
so the narrator can be heard? I would think software could target that
range of frequencies and counter them or eliminate them.

Documentaries on Discover channels for instance, seem to have no director
and the so-called music wipes out the narrator most of the time to the point
of even though you are interested in what is being said, you just switch
channels and give up. Deleting stereo helps some but not enough.

If not here, perhaps a newsgroup can be recommended?? I couldn't find one.

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
Is there a software that will filter out unwanted music from
documentaries so the narrator can be heard? I would think software
could target that range of frequencies and counter them or eliminate
them.

Documentaries on Discover channels for instance, seem to have no
director and the so-called music wipes out the narrator most of the
time to the point of even though you are interested in what is being
said, you just switch channels and give up. Deleting stereo helps
some but not enough.

If not here, perhaps a newsgroup can be recommended?? I couldn't
find one.
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How would the software determine what is unwanted?
 
Ben said:
Wouldn't the narrative be mixed with the music frequencies?
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This is the opposite of Karaoke apps - where the voice is filtered out -
so separation is possible (at least in some cases).

Susan
 
Glenn said:
Is there a software that will filter out unwanted music from documentaries
so the narrator can be heard?
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Oh, I'm well with you on that one! But the solution would require you
watch television only on your 'puter, unless you build some add-on
hardware box. The separating of dialogue and music (sic) would really
require that they are transmitted on separate channels. Susan's reply
above (re Karaoke) is possible because the singer's voice and the
instruments are recorded nowadays on separate tracks, not like in the
good old Phil Spectre (sp?) wall-of-sound days.
 
KeithS said:
Oh, I'm well with you on that one! But the solution would require you
watch television only on your 'puter, unless you build some add-on
hardware box. The separating of dialogue and music (sic) would really
require that they are transmitted on separate channels. Susan's reply
above (re Karaoke) is possible because the singer's voice and the
instruments are recorded nowadays on separate tracks, not like in the
good old Phil Spectre (sp?) wall-of-sound days.
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ermmmmmmm. . .

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio/vremover.htm

<q>
AnalogX Vocal Remover works on the same principles that the hardware
removers do - that in most instances vocals are equally mixed in both
channels, and can identified and therefore removed by simply changing
the phase on one channel by 180 degrees. While this won't remove vocals
in all instances, it does work in many cases, and can sometimes be used
to remove bass or breakbeat sections as well. . . .
</q>

Susan
 
KeithS said:
Apologies Susan, I'll have to try that sometime to convince myself!
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It does sound like magic. :)

I wonder if this would work for the OP's request.

1. remove the vocals from the original file - save the new file as "noise".
2. Use the "noise" file as the noise sample in a noise remover program
- that should remove everything from the original file *but* the vocals.

I suspect there may be a few snags in this approach. . . ;)

Susan
 
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