Silence & filler removal
tighten dialogue automatically
Remove silence, ums, ahs, and dead air from dialogue automatically. EditAssist detects pauses, filler words, and breaths, then tightens the timeline with clean crossfades. Perfect for podcasts, interviews, tutorials, and talking-head content.
Workflow
Select your dialogue track and the agent analyses the waveform and transcript for silence, filler words, and breaths. It suggests cut points with crossfade lengths, then executes the tightens on the timeline. You review, adjust thresholds in plain English, and re-apply.
The tool handles overlapping dialogue, multi-speaker scenes, and varying audio quality. It preserves natural pacing while removing distractions. All analysis is local; no audio is uploaded. Export the tightened cut or generate a side-by-side comparison for review.
Prompts
“Find all the moments where I say 'um' or 'uh' and remove them.”
“Detect silence longer than 2 seconds in the podcast and remove it with crossfades.”
“Tighten every interview clip by removing dead air and breaths between sentences.”
“Remove all filler words from the guest's answers but keep the natural pauses.”
“Find every clip longer than 60 seconds where nobody speaks and flag it.”
“Measure the dynamic range on the dialogue track and flag any clips with excessive noise.”
“Normalise all dialogue to -14 LUFS and remove breaths under the voice-over.”
“Create a side-by-side comparison of the original and tightened dialogue track.”
Features
Silence & filler detection
Detects pauses, ums, ahs, breaths, and dead air using waveform and transcript analysis with adjustable thresholds.
Auto-tighten with crossfades
Executes cuts with clean crossfades on the timeline, preserving natural pacing while removing distractions.
Multi-speaker aware
Handles overlapping dialogue and multi-speaker scenes without cutting off words or creating jump cuts.
Local & private
All audio analysis runs on your own machine. No upload. No per-minute fees. No cloud dependency.
Local-first
All transcription, vision analysis, semantic search, and clustering run on your own GPU. Nothing about your footage is uploaded. The only data that leaves is the text of your conversation with the agent. It's free to download, local models are free, and a new account starts with £15 of credit and no card. For long-running cloud work, pay as you go, or choose £20/mo Starter or £100/mo Pro.
Getting started
- 01Download EditAssist for macOS or Windows and create an account. You get £15 credit and no card is needed.
- 02Ingest your footage. The agent transcribes, indexes, and clusters automatically.
- 03Describe what you want in plain English and let the agent build the cut.
- 04Review, refine with conversational commands, and export to your delivery spec.
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