# The breathing between sentences is too loud

Loud breaths are usually compression doing its job on the wrong thing: it lifts the quiet moments, and breaths live there. Cast lists them with the mouth clicks so you can remove the distracting ones — but removing every single one makes a voice sound synthetic.

A breath is not noise. It is the sound of someone about to speak, and listeners use it to follow the rhythm of a sentence. Take them all out and the result is uncanny before it is clean — the same effect that makes over-processed audio sound robotic.

What is worth removing is the breath that draws attention to itself: a gasp before a long sentence, a sharp inhale right on the microphone, a breath left stranded at the end of a cut. Cast marks breaths alongside lip smacks and clicks, so you can review them as a list rather than hunting the waveform.

The permanent fix is at the microphone: a few more inches of distance, or speaking slightly across it rather than into it, drops breath energy far more than any processing. Compression makes breaths louder by design, so a lighter setting helps too.

**Review the breaths as a list:** Cast marks breaths alongside clicks and smacks, so you can remove the distracting ones and keep the rest. https://mubert.com/tools/cast/upload

## Related

- [What is a mouth click?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/what-is-mouth-click)
- [The AI cleanup made my voice sound robotic — how do I fix it?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/sounds-robotic)

---
Source: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/breathing-too-loud · Cast docs
Last updated: 2026-07-14