Descript automatically finds filler words like ums and so in your transcript and removes them from exported audio or video. The tool shows each instance with context, lets you ignore or delete them, and keeps strikethroughs in the transcript so you can review what was cut.
31 minutes
223 filler words (speaker also later references 222 in a breakdown)
107 repeated words
Descript has a tool that will automatically remove filler words like. Well, so words like that. And you can see them here on the transcript. It highlights the filler words in blue or it underlines it rather with the dotted underline. Dotted blue. To automatically remove these, we can go to underlord in the top right and then right here in the middle where it says remove filler words. Click on that it found in this 31 minute clip. 223 filler words and I can see them all on the right here. So I can click on one and it'll play it. It'll play a second before that filler word, the filler word itself, and then a second after so you can see it in context if that's actually a change you want to make. And if it's not, then you'll hit skip and it'll ignore that filler word. And then it bumps me to the second one, this word. And ums and us are almost always going to go. So I could play it, but if I want to remove it, I'll just hit remove. And you can see it's now gone from my transcript. And as soon as I remove it, it automatically goes to the next filler word, which is the word so. So it has the. Currently the current filler word I'm looking at highlighted in yellow. And then all the rest on this list, or excuse me, the current one is orange, all the rest on the list are in yellow. But by default it's going to delete it, which if you saw my video about delete versus ignore, it's going to remove it from the transcript and from the video as opposed to ignore, which will delete it from the video, but it'll just strike it through on the transcript so you can maintain awareness that you got rid of it. And that is my recommended way to do it, is to ignore. But just for the sake of completeness, I'm going to explain the others. Delete and replace with gap will delete it from the transcript and the video and in its place, if it was a 1 second filler word, it'll replace it with 1 second of silence and black. If it's a video, it'll just be a blank screen and silent in the exact amount of time of that filler word you replaced. Remove from transcript will take it out of your transcript here, but leave it in the video so it won't delete it, it won't remove it. So I'm going to do ignore and then the last thing to show you, well, there's a couple more things to show you, actually. If you click on this thing that says all filler words, this is what it's looking for. So of the 222 that it found, 107 are repeated words. So words like saying, Let me see if I have an example here. Bolivian. Bolivian. So kind of like stumbling over your words or thinking while you're repeating yourself. It's looking for those, but you can turn those off if you want to keep those in. And then it tells you over here on the right how many it found of ums. Us. Right. Like so. Well, and like I said, ums and us, those will always go. Everything else, it gets a little risky. You might consider keeping those in with this automatic tool and then manually removing them as you do your rough cut. That's. That's usually my process. But once you get that list refined, then the next step is to remove all if you want to. Or you can manually review them one by one, clicking the remove button. But let's go ahead and click Remove All. And since I did the ignore, you can see that they're stricken out, but they remain on my transcript, and they're going to remain highlighted in yellow until I close out of this tool altogether, which I can do by hitting this X. And now I'm just into regular editing mode, and my filler words remain stricken out, but they're gone from my video or my podcast.
