Remove silence from a podcast
Tighten your episode automatically — pauses, gaps, and dead air cut in one pass, before you publish.
Free · No signup · Files never leave your device
Drag and drop an audio or video recording
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Sensitivity
Strong cuts shorter pauses and quieter sounds
How it works
Drop your recording
It stays on your device — nothing is uploaded.
Silence detected & cut locally
Silent gaps are found and removed right in your browser via WebAssembly.
Download the result
See how much dead air was cut, then download for free — no watermark.
The edit every listener notices — without noticing
Nobody ever praised a podcast for its pauses. Dead air between thoughts, gaps while a guest unmutes, the silence while someone checks notes — listeners experience all of it as slack pacing, and it is the first thing professional editors remove. Doing it by hand means scrubbing an hour of waveform; this tool does the same pass automatically in minutes.
A typical unedited episode loses 10–25% of its length — pure dead air — while every word stays intact. Your episode never leaves your machine, which matters when it contains unreleased or sponsored material. Follow up with the volume normalizer to hit the -16 LUFS podcast standard and the episode is publish-ready.
Frequently asked questions
The Medium preset only cuts pauses longer than about half a second below the loudness threshold, and it always keeps a small margin around each cut — conversational beats survive, dead air does not. If your show has a deliberately slow pace, use Light; for a tight, fast-cut style use Strong.
Yes — drop the video in and choose the audio-only export. It skips the video re-encode entirely, processes fast, and gives you a clean audio file ready for your podcast host.
Run it on your near-final edit, after cutting content but before loudness normalization. That way the detection sees the real pauses your listeners would hear, and the normalizer measures the tightened episode.
Yes. The silence remover is completely free, with no signup, watermarks, or limits. We make money from our video translation service, not from this tool.
No. The silence removal happens locally in your browser using WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device — you can even disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded.
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