# How do I edit the transcript — what can I actually do?

Select any run of words in the Voice Editor and a menu appears. You can delete them (the audio is cut and the gap closes), ignore them (the audio is muted, the timing stays), correct the wording, mark a chapter, assign a speaker, or copy and paste words elsewhere.

**Where:** Voice Editor — select words in the transcript.

Deleting words is a real edit to the audio, not just to the text. The recording is cut and the timeline gets shorter, and because everything is non-destructive, it can be restored later.

Press Enter on a word to split the paragraph there — that is how you break up a wall of text into readable turns.

Find & Replace works across the whole transcript, which is the fastest fix when a name or a term is mis-heard the same way throughout. And a toolbar toggle lets you show or hide the text you have deleted, so you can see what you cut.

## Delete — cut it out of the audio

The words vanish, the audio underneath is ripple-cut, and everything after slides earlier — watch the episode duration drop. Reversible from Recent edits, like every cut.

![The episode length is shown, a sentence is selected in the transcript and Delete is pressed. The words vanish, the duration drops, and the toolbar’s Hide deleted toggle puts the cut text out of sight without destroying it.](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs-media/edit-transcript.mp4)

## Ignore — mute it, keep the timing

The words are struck out and silenced, but the gap keeps its length, so nothing after it moves. Use it when the audio is cut to video, or a music bed underneath must not drift.

## Correct — fix the text, not the voice

Type over a mis-heard word or phrase; transcript, captions and exports update. The recording is untouched — Cast does not synthesize words into your voice. Double-click any single word to edit it in place.

![A mis-heard phrase 'the I native products' is selected and rewritten to 'AI-native products' in the popover, then a single word is double-clicked and 'Lilia' is fixed to 'Lillia'. The transcript, captions and exports update; the waveform above never changes — the recording is untouched.](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs-media/correct.mp4)

## Keep — clear a filler flag

When the filler detector flags a word you actually want — a deliberate "like", a real "so" — Keep clears the mark so bulk cleanup leaves it alone.

## Chapter — two ways, rename, fold

Make a chapter from a selection (⌘⇧M, titled from your words) or click "+ Chapter here" between paragraphs — no selection needed. Double-click the title to rename it (a single click seeks there); fold the section to work with the structure instead of the wall of text. The same chapters ride the Studio timeline.

![A chapter is made two ways — from a selected sentence, and by clicking '+ Chapter here' between paragraphs with nothing selected. The default 'Chapter 1' is renamed by double-clicking its title, and the whole section folds away by clicking the thin bar on its left.](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs-media/chapters.mp4)

## Speaker — label who is talking

Assign the selection from the menu, or press ⇧S for the same picker — or just press the speaker’s digit and skip the picker entirely. Speakers are saved to your library and reusable across projects.

![A line is reassigned to a different speaker three ways: the Speaker button in the selection menu opens a picker, ⇧S opens the same picker without the mouse, and pressing a digit assigns the speaker who owns that number with no picker at all. The turn re-labels and recolours each time.](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs-media/speakers.mp4)

## Related

- [What is the difference between Delete and Ignore?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/delete-vs-ignore)
- [How do I fix a word the transcription got wrong?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/correct-transcript)
- [Can I undo a cleanup — even long after I made it?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/undo-cleanup)
- [How do I remove filler words?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/remove-filler-words)
- [Bleep swearing and sensitive words — the whole episode, one pass](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/censor-swearing)

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Source: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/edit-transcript · Cast docs
Last updated: 2026-07-31