Show HN: Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing
As someone who has personally edited over a hundred 1-2 hour podcasts with a new guest every time removing umms, ahhs, dead air and filler words is soul crushing. It has gotten to the point where after 2 years of running my podcast[0] I&#x27;m seriously considering stopping the show because I&#x27;m getting burnt out from editing and without sponsors it&#x27;s not feasible to hire an editor, but even with the show making no money I would happily pay triple your asking price if I could click a button and have the problem solved in a way that matched a human&#x27;s ability to edit out filler words.<p>It really is the difference between being able to edit a 1 hour episode in 1 real life hour (editing at 2x speed) vs literally spending 5 hours to edit 1 hour when there&#x27;s a lot of filler words or ums. That&#x27;s due to having to stop every few seconds, think about when to cut it and perform the cut. This is using a heavily optimized keyboard shortcut focused workflow too.<p>I hope you don&#x27;t mind constructive criticism but in my opinion your &quot;after&quot; version doesn&#x27;t sound natural. This isn&#x27;t an attack on your service specifically, because the outcome is the same with all of the automated tools I&#x27;ve tried. I haven&#x27;t tried them all but I did play with a few of them.<p>For example in your case the pause between &quot;Removing&quot; and &quot;filler&quot; doesn&#x27;t match the pace of the rest of the sentence and the transition from &quot;very&quot; to &quot;time&quot; has a very hard cut. This is also a 10 word clip that&#x27;s about 6 seconds. If you listened to a 1 hour podcast episode that was edited like this it would be much more noticeable.<p>There&#x27;s so many intricate and subtle details around when and what to cut to remove these things in a way where it&#x27;s not noticeable. Are there any paths moving forward in AI &#x2F; ML that can lead to this being indistinguishable from being humanly edited?<p>I debated deleting this comment before posting it because it&#x27;s a combination of feedback but also saying the service isn&#x27;t something I would buy in its current state but I&#x27;d like to think it&#x27;s more beneficial to post this to show there is a real demand for this service if it can be executed flawlessly.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;</a>