Hi everyone,

I learned just today that Sound Forge had been taken over by Magix, so I'm new to this forum. I am currently using Sound Forge 9 on Windows 10 64-bit.

My challenge is this: I need to split recordings at regular intervals (say, every five minutes) whilst the audio is still being recorded. Let's say I'm recording an hour-long presentation. Throughout the presentation, every five minutes I see a new file appear in the output directory. At the end of the hour, Sound Forge has already created a dozen files, named in sequential order. Compiling them together in order would give me my full recording.

A post-recording solution whereby a script splits the file at 5-min intervals will not fit the bill. Why? Because a team of typists needs to start transcribing the audio whilst the presentation is still happening, resulting in a full transcript of the audio becoming available shortly after the recording ends.

I imagine that a script can be written to achieve this goal, but I have no idea how to get started. The holy grail would actually be to end up with the dozen files, each one starting with the last one second of audio of the preceding file. In this way, we have audio confirmation that no words were lost in the split. But of course that would complicate the task of compiling a full recording, so ideally a separate seamless recording (with no splits) should also be made (perhaps overly demanding on system resources).

Can anyone here steer me in the right direction, either with a script that I can adapt to my needs, or with the details of a person/organisation who would happily provide me with the script for a fee?

A lot becomes possible if I can crack this nut. I'm looking forward to suggestions.

Kind regards,

Michael