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Automatically shorten word gaps in Descript

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Demo summary

The demo shows how to use the 'Shorten word gaps' tool to identify and remove silences longer than 0.5 seconds across an entire project.

Step-by-step

  1. Click Shorten word gaps
  2. Set the gap duration preference (e.g., any gap more than 0.5 seconds)
  3. Set the target shortened duration (e.g., 0.4 seconds)
  4. Click Shorten all

Tips

  • Shorten gaps to 0.4 seconds to keep the edit choppy, quick, and punchy without being too aggressive
  • Use this tool to remove long silences across the entire project simultaneously to save time

Highlights

“it's going to go ahead and take out 44 gaps and shorten them all for us, which is a hu like that alone is incredible”

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