Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcupt1!hprnd!clw From: clw@hprnd.HP.COM (Carl Wuebker) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: commercials...(long) Message-ID: <1100004@hprnd.HP.COM> Date: 19 Sep 89 19:56:19 GMT References: <6428@ingr.com> Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division Lines: 4 You might be able to use the commerical's audio compression trick to silence them. Here's an idea... use the ratio of peak audio output to average (RMS) audio output (averaged over 1~2 seconds) to silence the speaker.