( Transcript editing )
Edit the audio by editing the words
Cast transcribes what you recorded, and from then on the transcript is the editor: select a sentence and delete it, and the audio underneath is cut — the gap closes, the episode gets shorter, and the words never come back in your captions.
A waveform cannot show you a sentence
Every audio editor makes you find the cut by ear: scrub, listen, guess where the sentence ends, cut, listen again. On an hour-long episode that is the whole afternoon. Text does not have that problem — you can see exactly where a thought starts and ends, because you are reading it.
So Cast puts the transcript in charge. Deleting words is a real edit to the audio, not a note about it. Timestamps after the cut slide earlier, the duration readout drops, and chapters stay pinned to the sentences you attached them to.
Reversible by design — even weeks later
Nothing is overwritten. Every cut is a layer over the untouched recording, listed under Recent edits with its own Restore — so you can put back one sentence you removed twenty edits ago without losing anything you did since. Exporting changes none of this: the export is a rendered copy, and the project keeps the original.
Correcting is separate from cutting, and honestly bounded: fixing a mis-heard word updates the transcript, captions and exports, but Cast does not synthesize new words into your voice. If the audio should say something different, you record it.
- Delete cuts the audio
- Ignore mutes, keeps timing
- Find & Replace across the episode
- Every cut restorable
FAQ
01What can I actually do in the transcript?
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.
Read more →02What is the difference between Delete and Ignore?
Delete cuts the audio out and closes the gap, so the episode gets shorter. Ignore mutes the audio but leaves the gap, so nothing after it moves. Both are reversible, and both remove the words from captions and exports.
Read more →03Can I undo a cut I made weeks ago?
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.
Read more →04Can I fix a word the transcription got wrong?
Select the word and choose Correct, then type what it should say. This fixes the transcript, the captions and the exported text — it does not change the recorded audio, which still says what was actually said.
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