Remove Fillers in One Pass

Remove fillers scans your whole transcript for um, uh and hmm and cuts them in one pass, so you don't hunt for hesitation sounds line by line.

What it does

Remove fillers lives in the Tools menu (the grid icon) in Cleanup, next to Manage speakers, Check spelling and Remove pauses. One click finds hesitation sounds across every row, shows you a preview of each cut, and waits for you to confirm before anything changes.

The problem it removes

Editors used to delete filler words by hand, right in the transcript text. That's risky: Cleanup only keeps your transcript in sync with the audio if you fix spelling or split a line. Deleting or retyping a whole word, even just an 'um', pulls the text out of step with the per-word timecodes, and your export drifts. Remove fillers gives you a dedicated, safe way to drop those sounds without touching anything else.

Numbers and measurements are never mistaken for filler words. A phrase like '35mm' stays exactly as spoken.

How it works

Say you're cutting down a 40 minute podcast interview. The host says 'um' at the start of half their answers and drops in 'like' as a verbal tic. Open Tools, run Remove fillers, and scan the preview: every cut word shows faint and struck through, with an amber dot marking each affected row so you can see exactly what changed at a glance. Confirm, and those words read clean everywhere downstream: in Select, in your approval link, and in the exported timeline. If you change your mind on a specific row, Reset fillers in the row menu brings the words back.

Who it helps most

Anyone working from long, unscripted recordings feels this: podcast producers cleaning up a co-hosted episode, agencies turning raw interviews into social clips, documentary editors prepping a rough cut, or a marketer polishing UGC testimonials. If your source audio has real hesitation, this saves the manual pass without putting your sync at risk.

Try it

Open a project and run Remove fillers from Tools the next time your transcript is full of um and uh. Try it in ScriptCut.