( Pauses )
Dead air, listed in seconds — not a 0–100 slider
Cast lists every silence and marks it in the transcript. You set the threshold — show me pauses longer than half a second — and the list re-filters instantly. Then cut them, or shorten them to a natural beat, one by one or all at once.
Seconds you can reason about
Most tools give you a sensitivity dial with no units, so you never know what you are about to act on. Cast’s threshold is a number of seconds. Drag it and the list obeys immediately — no re-analysis, no guessing what “70%” means for your recording.
Shorten is usually the right action: a pause that is merely too long wants trimming to a beat — 0.3 seconds by default — while cutting it out entirely makes speech sound unnaturally jammed together. Cast offers both and lets you set the kept length.
- Threshold in real seconds
- Re-filters instantly
- Cut or shorten — your call
- Reversible like every edit
FAQ
01How 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.
Read more →02What about filler words in the same pass?
The Voice Editor finds them for you and lists them. Hesitations — "um", "uh", "mm" — are flagged by default and you can cut them all in one click. Discourse markers like "like" and "so" are detected too, but stay off until you switch them on word by word.
Read more →03Can I undo it if the pacing sounds wrong?
Yes. Undo and redo work as normal, and separately, every cut and mute is listed under Recent edits with its own Restore. Because Cast never overwrites your recording, you can put back one filler word you removed twenty edits ago without losing anything you did since.
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