Author: davekeeshan

  • Hello world!

    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

  • Multi Track editing Audacity

    A really nice way to record and edit podcasts is to have each person speaking isolated to their own channel.  In my early days it was one microphone into a single recorder, so every one was on the same track.  However with the advent of the pandemic and the rise in remote recording, having separate…

  • IPFS Website

    I have been in and around podcasting for the past 10 year. In the modern age of youtube and soundcloud I am still surprised that hosting for podcasting is still a thing that people have to and actually need to pay for. Even though the file sizes for audio podcasts are literally a faction (~1/10)…

  • DynamicAudioNormalizer

    Dynamic Audio Normalizer is a library for advanced audio normalization purposes. It applies a certain amount of gain to the input audio in order to bring its peak magnitude to a target level (e.g. 0 dBFS). However, in contrast to more “simple” normalization algorithms, the Dynamic Audio Normalizer dynamically re-adjusts the gain factor to the…

  • What is a podcast RSS feed?

    A lot of people know of an RSS feed, but do you know what it is, why it is important and should you generate your own one, or use the one that your podcast hosting provider generates? Before we get to that, what is a podcast? You may think you know the answer. Independent content…

  • Google Speech to Text API in python — Worked Example

    I found this article on medium about using the google speech to text API. As a python coder this was a good first start, but was not in a state that I could just use it. Please read the original article, for the why, this is just the how. So how do you convert the speech…