# How do I remove pauses and silences?

Cast lists every silence and marks it in the transcript. You set the threshold — show me pauses longer than X seconds, 0.5s by default — and then cut or shorten them, one by one or all at once.

**Where:** Voice Editor → Pauses.

![The threshold in the Pauses panel is dragged from 0.8 to 1.8 seconds. The list of silences re-filters instantly as it moves and the count drops — the control is a real number of seconds, not an abstract sensitivity, and no re-analysis is needed.](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs-media/remove-pauses.mp4)

The control is an explicit length in seconds, not an abstract sensitivity slider, so you always know exactly which pauses you are about to act on. Changing it re-filters instantly.

Shorten is usually the right action. A pause that is merely too long wants trimming to a beat — 0.3 seconds by default, and the Shorten to slider sets any length up to a second — while cutting it out entirely makes speech sound unnaturally jammed together.

- **Cut** — Removes the silence, closes the gap.
- **Shorten** — Trims it to a length you set — 0.3s by default.

## Related

- [How do I remove filler words?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/remove-filler-words)
- [What is the difference between Delete and Ignore?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/delete-vs-ignore)

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