[ale] slowing down an audio file

[Tim Watts]

To answer my own question: mhwaveedit.

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 00:34 -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
> Any one know of a tool that will allow me to play an audio file (wav) at
> a slower speed (and ideally rewrite it at that speed as well)?
> 
> I tried monkeying with mplayer's -srate option but that just degrades
> the quality without slowing the pace.
> 
> I have some readings by Eudora Welty and the first track is so fast I
> can barely follow along.  It's like she had 20 espressos beforehand.  I
> believe the publisher did some kind of time compression on it so that it
> would fit on one CD.  These were all recorded in 1956 but the pitch of
> her voice on the 1st track is noticeably higher than the others (but it
> doesn't have that chipmunk effect so they may have done some tweaking as
> well).
> 
> Any tips appreciated.
> 
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