Remove individual silences and pauses

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Use the editor to cut pauses, gaps, and silences from your recording. This can make your content feel faster-paced and more engaging. You can also remove all silences and pauses at once.

  • Steps on a computer

    1. Log in to your Riverside account.
    2. Open a recording in the editor or upload an external file to start editing.
    3. In the transcript, click a silent moment represented by symbols such as •, ••, or ••• (indicating different pause lengths).
    4. Click the delete-remove_trash.svg Delete icon to remove the selected pause.
      Removed silences and pauses appear in gray with a strikethrough.
      remove .gif

    To restore a deleted pause, make sure your transcript shows deleted text, then click the grayed-out pause in the transcript and select revert-edit.svg Restore. 
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  • Steps on a phone

      1. Open a recording from the Riverside mobile app.
      2. Tap Group 672972443.svgCut at the bottom of the screen.
        You are redirected to an editable version of the transcript. 
      3. In the transcript, tap a silent moment represented by symbols such as •, ••, or ••• (indicating different pause lengths).
      4. Tap Icon (4).svg Delete at the bottom of the screen to remove the selected pause.
        Removed silences and pauses appear in gray with a strikethrough .

      5. To restore a deleted pause, tap the grayed-out pause in the transcript, then selectflip-backward.svgRestore.

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