How to remove silence from a video
Pauses, false starts and dead air make talking videos feel slow. Cutting them by hand means scrubbing through the whole timeline. This tool finds every pause in the speech automatically, shows them on a timeline so you can keep the ones you want, and exports a tighter video or audio file. It runs in your browser, so your recording is never uploaded.
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Add your video or podcast
Drop in a video (MP4, MOV, WebM) or a sound file (MP3, M4A, WAV) up to 10 minutes long. The first time, the tool asks before loading its small voice detector, about 17 MB in total.
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Review the pauses
The timeline shows speech and every pause that will be cut in red, with a summary like “12:40 → 9:05 · 47 pauses cut”. Click any red pause to keep it. Play the preview with the pauses skipped to hear the result.
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Adjust if needed
Change the shortest pause to cut, how much breathing room stays around words, and how strictly the tool decides what counts as speech. The cuts update instantly.
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Export
Save the result as an MP4 video, or as M4A or WAV audio. Each cut gets a tiny fade, so the joins don’t click.
What the settings do
- Cut pauses longer than (default 0.5 seconds): shorter pauses are left alone, because some pause between sentences sounds natural. Raise it to cut only the long gaps; lower it for a punchy, fast style.
- Breathing room around words (default 0.15 seconds): silence kept before and after each piece of speech, so words are never clipped. More breathing room sounds more relaxed.
- Voice detection: Gentle treats quiet sounds as speech and cuts less, Strict cuts more, including breaths and murmurs, and Normal sits in between.
In our tests on recorded speech with known pauses, the default settings cut nearly every pause of half a second or more without clipping a single word. Pauses right at the minimum are sometimes kept, and Strict catches them.
Good to know before you cut
The tool detects speech, not just sound. That is what you want for talking videos, but it also means music, sound effects or ambience with nobody talking count as a pause and will be cut. If your video has a music intro or a B-roll section you want to keep, click those red sections to keep them before exporting.
Because cuts fall in the middle of the video, the edited video is always re-encoded. It keeps the original resolution and frame rate at high quality. Audio-only exports in WAV are lossless.
Great for podcasts, tutorials and talking-head clips
Silence removal saves the most time on recordings where one or two people talk to the camera or microphone: vlogs, lessons, product demos, interviews and podcast episodes. A 10-minute recording often loses a minute or more without losing any words.
A common workflow is to remove the silences first, then add captions to the tighter cut, and finally resize it for TikTok, Reels or Shorts. After exporting, the result card lets you open the new video straight in the next tool. Our guide to removing silence compares this with doing it by hand in a video editor.
Private by design
The voice detector is a small open-source AI model that runs in your browser, so your recording never leaves your device. You can delete the saved model whenever you like on the Saved AI models page.
Frequently asked questions
Is the silence remover free?
Yes, with no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many videos you process.
Will it cut off the start or end of words?
It shouldn’t. A short breathing room is kept on both sides of every piece of speech, and in our tests no words were clipped with the default settings. You can add more breathing room if your speaker trails off quietly.
Can I keep some of the pauses?
Yes. Click any red pause on the timeline to keep it, for example a dramatic pause or a music intro. Click it again to cut it.
Does it work on podcasts and audio files?
Yes. Add an MP3, M4A or WAV file and save the result as M4A or WAV.
Why did it cut my background music?
The tool looks for speech, so parts with music and no talking count as pauses. Click those sections on the timeline to keep them before you export.
How long can my recording be?
Up to 10 minutes per file for now. Finding the pauses takes a few seconds even for a full 10 minutes; exporting the video takes a little longer.