Output —Load audio

Remove Silence

Remove Silence trims dead air from the start and end of a recording and shortens long silent gaps in the middle — tightening up a podcast, voice note or interview. Set how quiet counts as silence, and the rest is stripped out. It runs in your browser with nothing uploaded.

How to use Remove Silence

01
Upload

Add your audio

Drop a recording in and play it to hear where the silences are.

02
Customize

Set the threshold

Choose how quiet a sound must be to count as silence — lower values only cut near-total silence.

03
Process

Download

Export to remove the silence and save the tightened file.

What is Remove Silence?

Remove Silence trims dead air from the start and end of a recording and shortens long silent gaps in the middle — tightening up a podcast, voice note or interview. Set how quiet counts as silence, and the rest is stripped out. It runs in your browser with nothing uploaded.

Key features & benefits

Free to use
Runs in your browser
No installation
Private processing
Fast processing
Easy download

Supported formats

MP3WAVM4AOGGFLAC
Max file size — bounded by your device's memoryProcessing — 100% in your browser

Frequently asked questions

It sets the level below which audio is treated as silence. A lower dB value (e.g. -60) only cuts near-total silence; a higher one (e.g. -20) trims quiet passages too.

It can if the threshold is too high. Start around -40 dB and lower it if soft speech is being removed.

Yes — long silent gaps throughout the clip are shortened, not just the start and end.

Yes — Remove Silence is completely free. There's no account, sign-up, watermark or limit on the core tool.

No. This tool runs entirely in your browser — your file is processed on your own device and never leaves it. The only network request is an anonymous usage counter.

No. It runs in any modern browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, Brave — with nothing to download or install.