How can we improve Hindy products?

← General

Detect and delete silence

When working with separate tracks of several remote guests on a podcast or talk show it is essential to delete "silent" parts of the track when someone isn't talking. Sometimes these parts are not silent at all (because of a lot of background noise or leaking audio from headphones), but that makes it even more important to have them removed.

I would like Hindi to be able to identify and insert breakpoints around these sections automatically and remove them upon request. That would make my life soooo much easier.

88 votes
Vote
Sign in
Check!
(thinking…)
Reset
or sign in with
  • facebook
  • google
    Password icon
    Forgot password?
    Create a password
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    Peter Dörrie shared this idea  ·   ·  Admin →

    9 comments

    Sign in
    Check!
    (thinking…)
    Reset
    or sign in with
    • facebook
    • google
      Password icon
      Forgot password?
      Create a password
      Signed in as (Sign out)
      Close
      Close
      Submitting...
      • Lisa Strawn commented  · 

        Any update on this? I LOVE Hindenburg but have considered switching or paying for another DAW just for this feature. It would be incredibly useful.

      • Colin Conn commented  · 

        Holy cow, you guys would become gods among DAWs in the podcasting sphere if you implemented something like this. I wouldn't even care to just sit back and delete the empty parts if it did the majority of cutting for me.

      • Robert Carpenter commented  · 

        Hindy Support, can you clarify why it doesn't make sense to implement Strip Silence in the current version?

      • AdminHindy Support (Support, Hindenburg Systems) commented  · 

        Detect and remove silence is an idea we have on our list of ideas. I had not thought about truncating silence ... but it might be something we can look at.
        In the current version of Hindenburg it might not make a world of sense to implement Strip Silence .. but in the coming version it will. We are working hard on Hindenburg 2.0. That something to look forward too.

      • Jeff Ruberg commented  · 

        This is the single thing missing from Hindenburg holding me back from being able to use it as my primary DAW. Would be so amazing if it were added.

      • Joey commented  · 

        This really takes a lot of time. I never thought about automating this. Great idea!
        Since it has already been done by others, it can't be impossible.

      • Raygan Kely commented  · 

        This would be extremely useful and I hope it's added soon. Logic and Pro Tools both have this and call it the "Strip Silence" feature. You can set some basic parameters and they take a long audio region and remove the silent or very quiet parts, leaving many smaller regions with gaps between them. This makes editing a lot easier, because with one click you can select and delete unwanted regions.

      • Eduo Gutierrez commented  · 

        I would extend this with one of the biggest features from Audacity not yet replicated anywhere else: Truncate Silence.

        The requested update is similar to Logic Pro's Strip Silence, which can set a level and outright remove all audio falling below that threshold. Audacity's "truncate silence" goes one step further by doing two things:

        - Selects only silence that spans all active tracks (so it won't strip when a person is listening to another, in a different track, talking).
        - For all "silence" below the the threshold it not only cuts across all tracks, but also tightens the audio removing the gap altogether.

        The effect this has on spoken podcasts is immediate and spectacular.

        https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/tap070-how-to-use-truncate-silence-and-sound-smarter-with-audacity/

      General: Journalist

      Feedback and Knowledge Base

      (thinking…)