( Censoring )
Skip the editor bill just to bleep a swear word
Cast scans your transcript against a profanity dictionary, lists every hit with its line and timecode, and censors the lot in one click — inside the same free editor you already use to cut fillers and pauses, not a separate tool with its own upload, export and bill.
The problem no "podcasting challenges" listicle mentions
It shows up the day a sponsor asks for a clean version, or a platform asks you to label the show explicit — and the standard toolchain has no answer. The big podcast editors don’t bleep anything automatically; the workaround is a standalone web tool built for video clips: upload the file there, download the result, bring it back into your editor. One more tool, one more export, every episode.
The money angle is real too: podcast ad buyers steer budgets toward brand-safe shows and skip the ones with heavy uncensored profanity. A clean feed reaches placements an explicit-tagged one can’t.
One scan, every hit, your call on each
Cast lists every flagged word against the line it came from, so you can judge a hit without hunting for it by ear. Censor all in one click, or one at a time — and the ⊖ on any row tells the scan to never flag that word again.
The cover is yours per word: three beep tones, white, brown or static noise, a crackle, or plain silence. Add your own terms — a client’s name, a spoiler, an unreleased product — and they’re flagged the same way as the built-in dictionary.
- 279-word profanity dictionary, scanned in one pass
- Beep, noise or silence — your pick, per word
- Add your own words to the dictionary
- Non-destructive — Restore any word, any time
Unmetered on every plan, including Free
Censoring is transcript editing, and transcript editing has never cost a credit on any plan — there’s no separate cleanup fee stacked on top of what you’re already paying, or not paying, for Cast.
One honest limit, said plainly: a bleeped episode is not automatically brand-safe or advertiser-approved. Marking a show clean or explicit is your call, and platforms leave that judgement to you. Cast gives you a fast, reversible way to produce the clean version — not a guarantee about how a platform or sponsor will treat it.
FAQ
01How do I bleep swear words in a podcast?
The Voice Editor scans your transcript against a profanity dictionary in the episode’s language and lists every hit. Censor them all in one click or one at a time, and pick the mask — a beep, a noise, or silence. The word is masked in the transcript and the captions too, so a clean version is clean everywhere.
Read more →02Does bleeping make my episode brand-safe or advertiser-approved?
Not by itself. Bleeping is a fast, reversible way to produce a clean version — the one a sponsor asks for or the episode you publish without the explicit tag — but marking a show clean or explicit, and whether a platform or advertiser accepts it, is a judgement they make, not something Cast certifies.
Read more →03Can I undo a bleep or change the cover sound later?
Yes — every bleep is non-destructive. Restore a single word from its popover, or Restore all to clear them at once, and the original audio comes back untouched. You can also swap a beep for noise or silence at any time without redoing the work.
Read more →04What languages does the profanity dictionary cover?
The built-in Strong-profanity list follows your episode’s detected language, across 25 languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and more. Anything it doesn’t catch — or a language it doesn’t cover — you add to My words.
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