Apologies for my missing PC system information – I’ve now updated my Profile Signature to include this data. The problem I’ve described has arisen intermittently when recording (for personal use only) short (approx 3-minute) speech files from a well-known American online video-sharing platform. Could this have something to do with pauses (i.e. silence) between sentences, because I have not encountered the problem when I record other subjects, for example music? For illustration, here’s a link ( providing an instance of where, following the procedure set out in my first post, I consistently “lose” the beginning part of a recording – in this case, the first 61 seconds (everything prior to the guy’s sentence beginning “It is written in E minor....”) – with the same happening each time I attempt to record the audio.

As a work around, I’ve found I can re-record the missing section on its own, and then paste it at the front of my first attempt in order to complete the recording, but this clearly falls short of a genuine solution.