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Listen to the middle of the recording:

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one section is much quieter.

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Select it, from the first quiet sentence to the last.

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Effect, Volume and compression, Amplify.

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Audacity offers the largest boost it can, here more than 20 decibels.

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That would make this part far louder than the rest.

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Type 11 decibels instead, enough to match the rest, and click Apply.

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Now the whole file.

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Select all, then Effect, Volume and compression, Normalize.

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Minus 1 decibel is a safe peak.

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Click Apply.

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The waveform is now one even height from start to finish.