Remove “um”, “uh” and long pauses from your clips

Why tighter clips keep people watching, and how AiHopper cuts filler words and long silences from every clip automatically, with captions that stay in sync.

AiHopper teamContent1 min read

Key takeaways

  • Short pauses keep the rhythm; long ones lose viewers.
  • Fillers like “um” and “uh” are cut, real words stay.
  • Captions move with the cuts.

In a conversation, pauses and “um”s are normal. In a 40-second clip they're where people swipe away. Cutting them makes the speaker sound sharper and the clip a few seconds shorter.

What gets cut

  • Filler sounds: um, uh, er, hmm (and the common Hindi ones).
  • Silences longer than about half a second. Shorter gaps stay, so the speech keeps its natural rhythm.
  • Nothing else: words like “like” or “matlab” are real words, so they stay.

In AiHopper

In a clip project, under “Look of every clip”, switch on “Remove pauses and filler words”. It uses the transcript that was already made, so it costs nothing extra, and the captions are moved onto the shorter clip.

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