Between words.
Room noise, a hum or a fan in the pauses goes quiet.
SOLIPSIUM Super resolution audio engine
Free audio tool
Quiet the pauses between words with a noise gate.
Choose a threshold. Wherever the recording falls below it, your browser turns it down, with short fades so nothing clicks. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a recording here
Your browser does the work on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
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Noise gate
What a gate does
It quiets the gaps, not the noise under the words.
A gate opens for sound over its threshold and closes when the sound drops under it.
Under words.
While someone talks the gate is open, so the noise under the voice stays.
The length stays.
Unlike removing silence, nothing is cut out: the pauses stay as long as they were.
How it works
Read every 10 ms, with fades.
The loudest sample of every 10 ms decides whether the gate is open there.
Choose the threshold.
Pick one under the quietest word and over the noise in the pauses. -45 dBFS suits a voice recorded at a normal level.
Choose how far.
Silence, or 20 dB down, which keeps a little of the room so the gaps sound natural.
Gate it.
It opens 5 ms early, so a word starts at full level, stays open 150 ms after it, and closes over 120 ms.
Questions
About noise gates.
The ends of words are cut.
The threshold is too high. Choose a lower one, or turn down by 20 dB rather than to silence, so a soft ending stays audible.
The noise still comes through between words.
The threshold is under the noise. Choose a higher one.
Gate or repair?
A gate quiets the pauses. The repair on the home page lowers steady noise under the words too, and measures the noise first. They can be used one after the other.
Cut the pauses shorter instead?
Remove silence cuts pauses longer than a length you choose down to a short gap.
Is my recording uploaded?
No. Your browser opens the file and does the work on this device; nothing is sent to Solipsium. Checking a recording for noise, hum and clipping is another page: the home page checks it in your browser too.
Free audio tools
Related free tools.
For pauses and noise.
- Remove silence
Cut long pauses down to a short gap.
- Remove background noise
Lower steady noise under the words, measured first.
- Volume leveler
Raise quiet passages and lower loud ones.
- Loudness checker
Read a recording's noise floor and loudness.
- All free audio tools
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Noise under the words?
A gate leaves it. Drop the recording on the home page to check its noise, and hear its first 20 seconds with a steady floor lowered.
Check a recording
The check and the 20-second try need no account.