Solutions Podcasters and interview editors
Tighten the conversation without flattening the people.
Automated editing ruins interviews by treating every pause as waste. Um Out proposes each cut in the sentence around it, so a ninety-minute conversation gets shorter without starting to sound like two people reading.
7 days · three tools · no card
The part of the edit nobody budgets for.
Conversation does not compress cleanly. The pause where someone is deciding how honest to be is doing more work than the sentence after it, and a tool that treats every gap over 400 milliseconds as waste will take it out along with the throat-clearing.
That is the specific risk in automated podcast editing: you end up with an hour that is technically tighter and sounds like two people reading. The mechanical work is still worth automating, since there is a lot of it across a ninety-minute conversation, but only if a person sees each removal before it happens.
A tighter hour that sounds like two people reading is not a better hour.
The workflow.
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Workflow
Keep the original timing recoverable
Work on a duplicate sequence so the untouched conversation is always one click away. If a tightened section loses something, you want to be able to hear the original immediately rather than reconstruct it.
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Quiet gap remover
Set a conservative gap, then review
Start with a longer minimum gap than you think you need. It proposes fewer cuts, which means the ones it does propose are the obvious dead air rather than the thinking room. Widen it only where you can hear that a pause is empty.
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Filler cleaner
Treat filler words individually
Hesitation sounds are safe. Real words are not: "like", "you know" and "actually" are often how a person hedges, softens, or signals they are not finished. The cleaner flags them; you decide, sentence by sentence.
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Captions
Caption from the final edit
Build the transcript and the timed captions from the conversation you kept, then correct names, company names and specialist terms before styling anything.
What this uses.
Four tools, all of them reviewable before they touch your timeline.
- Quiet gap remover
- Filler cleaner
- Captions
- Um Bot
What it will not do
It does not do multi-speaker diarisation, it does not rearrange a conversation into a better order, and it will not tell you which twelve minutes are the good part. It removes mechanical cleanup from a long edit and leaves the judgment where it belongs.
Questions from Podcasters.
What does it cost for a weekly show?
The same as for any other show. Local is one payment of $49 for the editing tools on two computers, with no per-episode charge, no minute cap and no renewal date. Plus is $7 a month if you want the hosted assistant on top. Nothing here is priced per hour of audio.
Will it cut the pauses that matter?
It will propose them; it cannot apply anything you have not approved. That is the design. Every candidate is listed with its position and length, and a pause you untick stays exactly as recorded.
Does it separate speakers?
No. Speaker diarisation is not something Um Out does. Point the analysis at a track, and if your guests are on separate tracks you can run it per track.
How does it handle remote-recorded audio?
The same way as any other audio: it analyses whatever is on the track. Separately recorded local tracks from a remote-recording service generally give cleaner results than a single mixed file, because one person coughing does not count as the other person speaking.
Can I use it on an interview I already edited?
Yes, though it is worth doing the cleanup before the creative edit rather than after. Removing gaps from an already-structured sequence changes the timing of everything downstream of each cut.
What this workflow costs.
Every step above is in the free trial. A ninety-minute conversation is exactly the length where the difference shows, and there is no footage cap to stop you testing it on a real episode.
Free trial
$0 for 7 days
The whole workflow on basic silence controls, on as many episodes as you like.
Local
$49 once
The full silence controls, which is what lets you set a conservative gap and protect thinking room.
Plus
$7 a month
Adds hosted Um Bot for questions about the episode you have open, plus the analysis tools.
Local has no renewal date. Prices adjust by region automatically.
Go deeper.
Try it on the next thing you record.
Seven days, three tools, no card. Your projects are untouched when it ends.
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