Silence Removal
Automatically detect and strip silent sections from audio files. Ideal for tightening podcast episodes, lecture recordings, and voiceovers. SnapOtter processes everything locally on your server so your audio never leaves your network.
Features
- Adjustable silence threshold in decibels for precise detection
- Configurable minimum silence duration to keep intentional pauses
- Supports MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, and other common audio formats
- Preserves original audio quality with no re-encoding artifacts
- Batch processing to clean multiple files in one operation
What you can do
- Trimming dead air from a podcast episode before publishing
- Shortening a lecture recording by removing long pauses between topics
- Cleaning up a voiceover take by stripping silent gaps between sentences
- Tightening an audiobook chapter recording for faster listener playback
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
SnapOtter runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with Silence Removal are never uploaded to third-party servers. Deploy a single Docker container and process files with full privacy, no watermarks, and no usage limits. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- Will silence removal change my audio quality?
- No. SnapOtter trims silent segments and re-joins the remaining audio without re-encoding the waveform data, so quality stays intact. All processing happens locally on your server.
- Can I control what counts as silence?
- Yes. You can set a decibel threshold and a minimum duration so that brief natural pauses are preserved while longer dead-air gaps are removed. Processing runs entirely on your own hardware.
- What audio formats are supported?
- SnapOtter supports MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC, M4A, and other common formats. Your files are processed on your self-hosted instance and never uploaded to external servers.
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