Body: <p>As an English teacher, and also a programmer, I've created a system of listening that works this way:</p>
  
  <p>I choose an interesting video full of speech.<br>
  <strong>I manually cut it into peices based on slinces where there is no speech</strong> (By silence I'm referring the the parts where speaker pauses for a second to breathe. The very very tiny pause between sentences)<br>
  I use transcription services to extract text of each part<br>
  And many other steps...</p>
  
  <p>As a software programmer I hate manual operations. I don't like the idea of splitting a video into parts by hands. It really is a time consuming and dirty job.</p>
  
  <p>Googling around I couldn't find anything. Is it possible to do that? How?</p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-10T18:42:19.157Z
Comments.Text: See my answer to this question: http://video.stackexchange.com/q/16967/1871
Comments.UserDisplayName: Gyan
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Comments.Text: Dirty job! Them's fightin' words, pilgrim.  Joking aside, you're going to have to listen to the whole thing after you process it and fix mistakes anyway.  Might as well do it right the first time.  If it's too time consuming for you, hire someone or get a student to do it.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Jason Conrad
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-11T12:40:07.630Z
Comments.Text: This reminds me of a question on superuser, where he used audacity to monitor the noise his kids made. When it got too loud the screen would switch off.
Comments.UserDisplayName: jiggunjer
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Comments.Text: @Mulvya, thanks for your other answer. Very similar to what I want. I split the video into segments of 1 second, and guess what, mean_volume result was the same for all of'em. I don't know what's wrong here.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Saeed Neamati
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-15T05:46:31.280Z
Comments.Text: Can you upload a sample which contains both speech and silence?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Gyan
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-15T05:49:12.280Z
Comments.Text: Yeah, as a sample we can analyze [this ted talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_luber_the_secret_sneaker_market_and_why_it_matters)
Comments.UserDisplayName: Saeed Neamati
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-15T07:03:48.443Z
Comments.Text: See http://pastebin.com/8tBd6a8F
Comments.UserDisplayName: Gyan
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-15T07:47:44.657Z
Comments.Text: Pastebin has a limit, so I have only pasted the first half of the log.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Gyan
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Comments.CreationDate: 2015-12-15T08:46:07.747Z
Comments.Text: So, apparently I'm doing something wrong. I have to find it out. Thank you for the precious work.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Saeed Neamati
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Title: Is there a way to cut a speech video into parts on silences automatically?
UserDisplayName: Saeed Neamati
ThreadText: # Is there a way to cut a speech video into parts on silences automatically?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-10)
  
  As an English teacher, and also a programmer, I've created a system of listening that works this way:
  
  I choose an interesting video full of speech.  
  **I manually cut it into peices based on slinces where there is no speech** (By silence I'm referring the the parts where speaker pauses for a second to breathe. The very very tiny pause between sentences)  
  I use transcription services to extract text of each part  
  And many other steps...
  
  As a software programmer I hate manual operations. I don't like the idea of splitting a video into parts by hands. It really is a time consuming and dirty job.
  
  Googling around I couldn't find anything. Is it possible to do that? How?
  
  **Tags:** video
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: See my answer to this question: http://video.stackexchange.com/q/16967/1871  
  > **username_2**: Dirty job! Them's fightin' words, pilgrim.  Joking aside, you're going to have to listen to the whole thing after you process it and fix mistakes anyway.  Might as well do it right the first time.  If it's too time consuming for you, hire someone or get a student to do it.  
  > **username_3**: This reminds me of a question on superuser, where he used audacity to monitor the noise his kids made. When it got too loud the screen would switch off.  
  > **username_0**: @Mulvya, thanks for your other answer. Very similar to what I want. I split the video into segments of 1 second, and guess what, mean_volume result was the same for all of'em. I don't know what's wrong here.  
  > **username_1**: Can you upload a sample which contains both speech and silence?  
  > **username_0**: Yeah, as a sample we can analyze [this ted talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_luber_the_secret_sneaker_market_and_why_it_matters)  
  > **username_1**: See http://pastebin.com/8tBd6a8F  
  > **username_1**: Pastebin has a limit, so I have only pasted the first half of the log.  
  > **username_0**: So, apparently I'm doing something wrong. I have to find it out. Thank you for the precious work.  
  
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