Speeding up Voice-Over\narration?

The problem with doing the sound for your own films is that huge blocks of time go by in between sound editing sessions. Thus, two years ago I happily speeded up Peter Coyote's skillful narration in a tiny spot or two, now I have a voice-over of a character who speaks waaaaayyyyy toooooo slllloooowwwwly, and I need to do a LOT of speeding up, and I've forgotten how.
Could someone point me to the right chapter in the Manual? Would be most appreciated.
Ben

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_Time Stretching Regions_
Logic Pro allows you to change the length of audio regions (without changing their pitch) directly in the Arrange area—using menu or key commands.
When applying these functions to a region in the Arrange area, a new file—consisting of the resulting material—will be created, leaving the original intact. Both new and old files are accessible in the Audio Bin.
Logic Pro offers different time stretching and compression algorithms in the Arrange area’s +Audio > Time Machine Algorithm+ menu. The different algorithms are best suited for particular types of musical material. For more information, see +“Using the Time and Pitch Machine”+ on page 505.
Note: You can also time stretch selected audio regions directly in the Sample Editor, using the Time and Pitch Machine.
_To adjust the region length to match the locator positions:_
1 Set the left and right locator positions.
2 Choose +Audio > Adjust Region Length to Locators+ to stretch or compress the selected audio region to fit between the locators.
The region start point is not changed by this function—so it doesn’t matter if the locators are not directly above the region.

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It sounds like you are making too many assumptions and not actually testing anything.
For instance, emoji may not cause issues for other contacts (maybe it is and you don't know it) but if I were testing this issue, the first thing I would do is remove the emoji from the contact info.
Next thing I would do is make a fake contact called "Home Other". And see if the Voice Control asks you to pick between Home and Home Other
Another thing I would do is add multiple numbers for your home contact (real or fake) And see if you can get the Voice control to find the contact and ask you what number you want to pick. (home or mobile)
And last thought that I had....You mentioned that the Voice Control dials a random person every time, but how random is it really? Are you sure that part of these people's names don't phonetically sound similar to the word Home?

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I am trying to change the speed on a voice over and this is the message I am getting: Unable to complete command. A conflict occurred during a trip operation.
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As a workaround, move the VO clip to the end of the Sequence or to an empty Sequence. Make the speed change as needed, then edit the clip back into the Sequence where you need it.
The error message you receive is usually due to a conflict with another clip in the Timeline so moving it to an empty spot should work.
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Where does FCP store the voice-overs/narration clips?

Just did a 'my bad'.
Just left the distant remote location where I've been editing a film for three months. Used the voice-over function on FCP extensively. But, ooops, forgot to go find the subsequent files in whatever folder FCP stores them in, and transfer them to the drive I'm now traveling with (that supposedly should have the whole film on it).
I wonder if someone could steer me to where FCP automatically stores it's voice-over files once recorded?
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Thank you Studio X and Nick,
Duh. And silly of me not to soooo carefully go through the Capture Scratch before leaving that little island in the North Atlantic.
Now I have to remind myself how to access a computer remotely, get someone to turn on the beast parked in a beautiful little white church hanging over the North Atlantic ... with a hundred wild caribou in the meadow behind, I kid you not, every day. I could stand there and watch them from 30 feet away for hours. Cool caribou.
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Ok so I want to do a voice over narration on my keynote presentation
I go through the steps of adding audio to my presentation, on the recording screen
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This is my recommendation.
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I recommend Audacity. It's a great free application. You can download Audacity from www.sorceforge.com among other places. You'll also want to get the Audacity LIB file that is needed to export your audio recording to .mp3.
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Playback Uses: Recorded Timing
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Include the slideshow recording: SELECTED!!!
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