Allow the user to skip silence.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

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Feature description

Skip audio which would be considered silent. I realize that the implementation shall involve some kind of threshold, so to prevent it being arbitrary, allow the user to configure the decibel level.

Why do you want this feature?

Because I record lots of meetings. There's lots of undesired waiting as papers are brought through and organized.

Additional information

Reported here due to https://github.com/you-apps/RecordYou/issues/189#event-11922912313. Reported because https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Voice-Recorder/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+skip+silence returned 0 results.

[inson1]

@RokeJulianLockhart time should be also configuratable? I mean how long silences should be skipped?

[Aga-C]

Do you mean automated pausing/resuming while recording when silence is detected, or fast-forward during silence on playback?

[RokeJulianLockhart]

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Voice-Recorder/issues/31#issuecomment-1964445551

@Aga-C, I envisaged increasing the playback speed of, or skipping, silence.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Voice-Recorder/issues/31#issuecomment-1964431172

@inson1, the best I've thought of in that regard is that the threshold should be relative to the average volume of the file.

[naveensingh]

Media3's ExoPlayer has built-in support for skipping silence. It'll require rewriting the playback-related code to use ExoPlayer. For the sake of simplicity, the threshold shouldn't be user-configurable.