Podcast Clip Maker

Scrubbing an hour of audio for one quote is slow. Transcribe the recording on your device, then search for a word or phrase: the matching lines are listed with their times. Click a line to set the clip to it, or Shift-click the next lines to extend it.

The speech model is English-only, about 41 MB, downloaded once with your consent and kept for next time. The transcript follows playback, highlighting the line you are hearing.

Each clip is drawn on the episode's waveform as a numbered band, so you can see what is already cut and where the gaps are. Click a band to select its clip, drag its edges to adjust it, or type an exact start and end.

The player has a level meter, a spectrum, zoom and loop, and the keyboard covers the rest: Space plays, I and O set the start and end at the playhead, and C adds the next clip.

A clip cut mid-sentence clicks; a short fade in and out on every clip removes that, and each clip has its own fade lengths. Padding adds up to a second of silence at both ends, so a clip does not start abruptly on a social feed.

Loudness levels each clip to −16 LUFS for podcast apps or −14 LUFS for streaming platforms, with the peak kept under −1 dBFS, so a quiet answer and a loud laugh end up at the same level. Switch the preview to Clip to hear exactly what will be exported.

Export the selected clip as MP3, WAV or FLAC, or M4A, AAC and OGG where your browser supports them. Export all puts every clip in one ZIP, each named after its title.

When the recording has been transcribed, the ZIP also holds an SRT caption file for every clip, timed from the start of the clip (padding included), ready for a video editor or ToolBuddy's Audiogram Generator.

To cut a single section out of a file, the Audio Trimmer is quicker. To remove the pauses from a whole episode, use the Silence Remover; to clean up hiss and hum first, use the Noise Remover.

For a full transcript or subtitles of the whole recording, use Audio Transcription or the Auto Subtitle Generator, and to turn a clip into a shareable waveform video, use the Audiogram Generator.