Why narration needs tight timing
In a voiceover or audiobook there is no music or video to carry the pacing — the listener hears every pause. Consistent, tight gaps between sentences make narration sound professional, while uneven dead air sounds amateur.
Trimming silence also helps you hit length targets and keeps the experience steady across a long recording.
Handle breaths and retakes
Recording narration produces long silences where you reset between takes or paragraphs. Automatic detection clears those gaps in one pass instead of you scrubbing through hours of audio.
Keep the threshold conservative so you trim the silence around breaths without removing the breaths themselves where they sound natural.
Settings for clean narration
Use a longer minimum silence length — around 0.6–0.8 seconds — so you remove the genuine gaps between sentences but keep the natural rhythm of reading aloud. Add padding so the start of each line is not clipped.
Keep your recordings private
Manuscripts and client scripts are often confidential. On-device processing means your narration is never uploaded and never stored on a server — it stays on your phone from import to export.