Drop a video or audio file
MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, WAV or M4A. The file is read on this page and never uploaded.
How it finds a pause
The page measures how loud the sound is every 10 milliseconds and sets a quiet level from the recording itself, against the loud end of the speech, so it works on a quiet room and a noisy one alike. A pause is a stretch that stays under that level for at least the length you choose: 0.3 seconds catches the breaths between sentences, 1 second and more only the long gaps.
The silence before the first sound and after the last is counted on its own line, since it is usually trimmed first.
Cutting them
Talking-head Shorts and podcast clips are usually cut tight: pauses down to a few tenths of a second, so the video moves. In the Cuecaps studio, Remove dead space finds every word first and cuts between them, so a soft word at the end of a sentence stays in. You see and hear the cut before you export, and Fast edit can also cut filler words and retakes, zoom on the jump cuts and level the volume.
Questions
Is my file uploaded?
No. Your browser decodes the sound and the page looks for the pauses there.
Why does it say there's no quiet floor?
Music or steady room sound under the voice keeps the level from ever dropping, so loudness alone can't tell a pause from a word. The studio's dead-space cut works from the words' timing instead, so it still finds the pauses.
Does it work on long recordings?
Yes, up to 2 GB. A one-hour podcast takes a few seconds to read.