Ospac will take a multi-channel recording of an audio podcast conversation and master this to a high-quality mix-down with support for intro and outro.

Beside other features, ospac includes a robust leveler, two solutions to avoid crosstalk and soft silence skipping.

Ospac provides an energy based leveler. The following plot shows the original on top and the levelled outcome on the bottom:

This waveform shows a crosstalk from the first channel in to the second channel, and some original content in the second half of the second channel:

The included crosstalk gate is a very robust algorithm that results in the following:

A new experimental crosstalk filter tries to improve the result:

When enabled, ospac may reduce silence above 0.5s to shorter pauses:

Alternatively, ospac can try to reach target lengths (90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, and 50%) compared to the original:

Of course, the result will only be really acceptible until all silence space is used up.

Mix 2 mono voice recordings with crosstalk filter, leveling and normalization:

ospac person1.wav person2.wav --output target.wav

Mix a podcast with stereo intro and outro:

ospac --mix in.wav --overlap 4 \
	--voice person1.wav person2.wav --overlap 4 \
	--mix out.wav --output target.wav

Ospac was developed due to the need of a batch solution for audio podcast creation. It is a rewrite and compilation of the scripts and methods used for the Modellansatz podcast, http://modellansatz.de/ .

Check that you have libsndfile and a c++-compiler on your system. Then, you may build and install ospac in this way:

$ make ospac && sudo make install

If you have ffmpeg and libav on your system, you may also build ospac with support for loading of various audio formats and writing aac files:

$ make ospac-ffmpeg && sudo make install-ospac-ffmpeg

On MacOS you can install libsndfile using homebrew simply by:

$ brew install libsndfile

If you want to build the GUI, install the development packages for fltk-1.3 and then build ospac-gui:

$ make ospac-gui && sudo make install-gui

Since there seem to be some broken fltk-1.3 source packages on linux, you can alternatively try the following to build a non-statically linked version:

$ make ospac-gui-linux && sudo make install-gui

To simplify usage tab-completion files for bash and zsh can be generated:

$ make tab-completion

The tab-completion is then usable by appending the following to your .[bash|zsh]rc file:

source PATH_TO_OSPAC/[zsh|bash]_completion.sh

See the doxygen docs https://github.com/sritterbusch/ospac/raw/master/ospac-internal.pdf for a detailed API reference.

You may run tests that create exemplary mixdowns and waveform images that are used in the API documentation.

$ make test

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