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Remove silence cut the dead air out of a recording

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By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026

Long pauses at the start, gaps in the middle, dead air at the end. This finds the silent stretches and takes them out, so an hour of recording becomes the part where something actually happens. Audio or video in, MP3 out.

What counts as silence

Anything below -40 dB lasting longer than a second is removed — that's quiet enough to be a genuine gap rather than a pause for breath, and long enough that speech isn't chopped up. Room tone and gentle background noise sit above that line, so they stay and the result doesn't sound stitched together.

Where it saves the most time

Interviews with long thinking pauses, lecture recordings that started ten minutes early, voice memos with a walk to the microphone at the front, and screen recordings where nobody spoke for a while. On a podcast it's the quickest first edit you can make before you touch anything by hand.

About your file

Your file is uploaded to our own machine, processed there, and deleted immediately afterwards. Limit: 400 MB.

Want the whole track louder or quieter afterwards? Change audio volume does that. Prefer an automatic, even level instead? Normalize audio handles it. Need it gone from a video entirely rather than just cleaned up? Remove audio from video strips the track out.

Common questions

How do I remove silence from a recording?

Drop the file in and download the result. Gaps longer than a second are taken out automatically.

Will it cut off words?

No. Only stretches quieter than -40 dB and longer than a second are removed, and normal pauses in speech are neither.

Can I use a video file?

Yes, you get the shortened audio back as an MP3.

How much shorter will it be?

That depends entirely on the recording — an interview with long pauses can lose a third, a tight recording almost nothing.

Is it really free?

Yes. No account, no watermark, no daily limit.

Does it change the sound itself?

No, only the silent parts are cut. What's left is untouched.