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How to remove filler words from a recording with Descript

Remove the ums and ahs from a recording by editing text instead of scrubbing a waveform.

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How to remove filler words from a recording with Descript

  1. Bring your recording into Descript; it turns the audio into a transcript.
  2. Use its filler-word tool to find the ums and ahs.
  3. Remove them, then listen to the result before you keep it.

Watch out: Listen back before you keep the edit, so the cleaned recording still sounds natural.

Edit the text. Remove the ums. Listen back.

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