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.
Drop a recording in and play it to hear where the silences are.
Choose how quiet a sound must be to count as silence — lower values only cut near-total silence.
Export to remove the silence and save the tightened file.
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.
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.