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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

by Doug Calobrisi doug.sh published 2026-05-027 min read

A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.

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