Removing Silent Sections

The Detect Silence dialog allows you to detect and remove silent sections of your audio.

Procedure

  1. Select one or multiple audio events with silent sections in the Project window.
  2. Select Audio > Advanced > Detect Silence.
  3. In the Detect Silence dialog, make your settings.
  4. Click Compute to analyze the audio.

    The audio is analyzed and the waveform redrawn to indicate which sections are considered silent according to your settings. The number of detected regions is displayed.

  5. Optional: Click Preview to listen to the result.

    The event is played back and the sections are silenced according to your settings.

  6. Optional: In the Detection section, readjust the settings until you are satisfied with the result.
  7. Optional: In the Output section, activate Add as Regions.
  8. In the Output section, activate Strip Silence.
  9. Click Process.

Result

The event is split and the silent sections are removed.

After Completing This Task

If you have selected more than one event and did not activate Process all selected Events, the Detect Silence dialog opens again after processing, allowing you to make separate settings for the next event.