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“um” surrounded by relative silence is very easy to isolate and remove, so we’ll go ahead
and get rid of it.
Deleting Audio
As you listen to your recording and come across a flub you’d like to delete, isolate the
offending sound by highlighting that portion of the waveform with your Selection Tool, as
shown in Figure 41.
Figure 41: Unwanted sound selected for deletion.
When highlighting audio for removal, try to begin and end your selection on areas of
similar height in the waveform. This will help curtail clicks or pops that may result from
your edit. Cutting audio sandwiched between areas of silence usually produces the least
noticeable edits.
Once you have your edit defined, click Play or the space bar to listen to your selection. If
you haven’t highlighted all of the flub, simply hover your cursor over either the left or right
side of the highlighted area. When your cursor becomes the hand pointer tool, as shown
in Figure 42, you can push and drag the selection borders to highlight more or less of the
audio you intend to delete. Try to select all of the flub without including any part of the
speech directly before and after it, then click Play again to hear your redefined selection.
Figure 42: Use the hand pointer to expand and contract selections.
Once you’re satisfied that you’ve isolated the sound, you can go ahead and click Cut or
hit your computer’s Delete key to remove it from the waveform. Don’t be afraid of
messing things up—you can always click Undo to return the deleted audio to its original
position. You should also be aware that your original recording is not being altered in any
