You can check if a PO file is valid with the following command:

        msgfmt -c -o /dev/null <po file>
      

The following errors were found in audacity 's PO files:

source does not specify a priority
gettext: locale/inactive/br_Transifex20201031.po: can't guess language
gettext: locale/inactive/lv_Transifex20201031.po: can't guess language
gettext: locale/inactive/pms_Transifex20201031.po: can't guess language
gettext: locale/inactive/sq_Transifex20201031.po: can't guess language
      

Please ask the translator (identified by the Last-Translator field in the PO file), the language team (identified by the Language-Team field) or debian-i18n for a fix.