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Remove Silence from Audio

Strip silent passages from a recording and return a tightened MP3 or WAV. Run the preset directly on this page or call the same agent-ready endpoint from your product.

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Prefer the shell? Remove silence from audio with FFmpeg, the verified FFmpeg command for this edit.

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BEFORE / AFTER

See what the tool changes.

A real example: the after side is the unedited output of a KinoPipe job. Run the live form above to generate the same result from your own media.

BeforeWith silent gaps
Pauses and dead air
AfterTightened audio
Ready
Tightened audio48 kHz · stereo
Silent passages cut
Silences removed

Demo footage: public-domain timelapses (Bureau of Land Management, Oregon · NASA SVS). Processed by the same pipeline the API and MCP tools call.

Useful defaults, typed options.

The tool slug stays stable while your agent supplies named media inputs and a narrow set of documented options.

  • Tighter podcasts and voiceovers
  • Bounded, predictable cutting
  • Accepts video or audio sources
What this preset does
  1. 01Detect silence below the threshold
  2. 02Cut passages longer than the minimum
  3. 03Keep short natural pauses
  4. 04Encode MP3 or WAV
Stable endpointPOST /api/v1/tools/remove-silence-from-audio
Live API request
{
  "inputs": [{ "id": "main", "url": "https://example.com/podcast.mp3" }],
  "options": { "threshold": -35, "min_silence": 1 }
}
Successful output example
{
  "result": {
    "output": {
      "filename": "remove-silence-from-audio-output.mp4",
      "contentType": "video/mp4",
      "byteSize": 437021,
      "downloadUrl": "https://cdn.kinopipe.com/…"
    }
  }
}

Know the boundaries before you run.

Audio output only (MP3 or WAV); video silence cutting is on the roadmap

About remove silence

Short pauses below the minimum silence duration are kept, and a quarter second of each removed silence is preserved so speech does not sound clipped.

Yes. The audio track is extracted and tightened; the output is MP3 or WAV.

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