This kind of audio editing turns out to be more enjoyable (though not faster) than removing ums. I've got three tracks: Francesca reading the questions in English, Santa Salsera reading the answers in English, and the original in Italian. It's all just going through bit by bit and time-shifting the the tracks so everything fits together.
I made a clip of the first minute or so: http://divavillelounge.org/audio/DeclarationOfWar.mp3 It's rough; there's some crackle in the beginning, and I need to do a better job of evening out the volumes. The plan is to do all the time shifting first and then all the volume adjustments. I thought it would go faster this way.
I'm about 1/3 done the time shifting. Adjusting the volume should go faster, then I'll need to break it up into segments, and then music selection too. Which will be kind of tricky I think; that swingy war-era big band music seems like it would be inappropriate to most of Signor Bucca's story. He never mentions music at all and Francesca told me before that he never heard American music during that time. Well I've got some time to mull it over.
Also, Francesca sent the answers to those few things we didn't understand in the translation. We had guessed right on almost everything. There's only one sentence that Santa Salsera needs to do over.
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