A method and system of identifying and optimizing audio segments in a speech application program. Audio segments are identified and extracted from a speech application program. The audio segments containing audio text to be recorded are then optimized in order to facilitate the recording of the audio text. The optimization of the extracted audio segments may include accounting for programmed pauses and variables in the speech application code, identifying multi-sentence segments and the presense of duplicate audio segments, and accounting for the effects of coarticulation.