An audio recording has five minutes of silence at the beginning. Which audio-editing technique will delete this unwanted silence?

Topping and tailing means trimming unwanted material from the start and end of an audio recording. Since the five minutes of silence are at the beginning, this technique removes them. Normalizing changes the audio level, equalizing adjusts frequency balance, and dithering adds low-level noise to reduce digital quantization artifacts.

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