Removing silence from your recordings
- Highlight the whole recording with your mouse.
- Click on the Effect menu and then Truncate Silence.
- Audacity uses certain thresholds to decide what is silence. ...
- Silence Compression determines how much of the silence is removed. ...
- Click OK.
How do I edit silence in audacity?
Shorten silences that are 20 seconds or longer to 5 seconds
- Set the Operation mode in the dropdown to "Truncate Detected Silence".
- Set the detection "Threshold:" control.
- Set the detection "Duration:" control to 20 seconds. ...
- Set the "Truncate to:" control to 5 seconds. ...
- Click OK.