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@firesidefedi @prinlu Looking great on the @nham homepage. 🤗

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Oh, definitely! ffmpeg will usually match the input and output bitrates to produce generally the same-sized file (IIRC), but if it doesn't, just pick a bitrate and add -b:a {number}k to the command.

So, for 64k (plenty enough for speech-only audio), something like:

ffmpeg -i ${input_file} -filter:a "speechnorm=e=50:r=0.0001:l=1" -b:a 64k ${output_file}

You can also use audacity and its compressor filter for the same effect (with some visual feedback), but I find ffmpeg is actually much faster. XD

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@rl_dane AH! I see what I did. I normalized the video into audio. That's why it's so huge! :-D Sorry about that! I'm going to add this to my audio cut tool. And yeah, I'd MUCH rather use CLI. I'm a Linux nerd and I just find it easier ... once I actually understand the command! :-D Thank you so much for your help! Gonna upload the audio to castopod now.

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@firesidefedi @javascript @gabboman Thanks Ozoned for taking my requested guest. and thank you Gabboman and Bolet for sharing your experience making WAFRN!

The chaotic genius and friendship is even better than what I expected from the creators of "We allow female representing nipples."

My favorite part was Bolet's comments to Gabbo on WAFRN's initial design: "My God! How can you have so little taste?!" 😂

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@firesidefedi @gabboman @javascript My goodness. You doing these daily??????!!!!!

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@phillycodehound If I COULD do it daily, I WOULD! :-D But no. That's the last one of the week. Sadly. :-)

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Thank you to @cubicgarden for being my guest on this episode of Fireside Fedi. There was no livestream due to some tech issues, but everyone enjoy!

Ian is an , Previously #R&D

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Good day all! HUGE week coming up on the show! All times US Eastern, UTC-5.

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@firesidefedi @quillmatiq @snarfed.org @anewsocial ohhh you’re doubling up again.

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@andypiper @quillmatiq @snarfed.org @anewsocial dirty. And yes! :-D

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