3 title: Strip Silence from Audio Regions
4 menu_title: Stripping Silence
8 From the region context menu, choose <kbd class="menu">Edit > Strip
9 Silence</kbd> to detect silence (based on a user-chosen threshold in
10 <abbr title="Decibels relative to Full Scale">dBFS</abbr>), split a
11 region based on the boundaries of the silent segments, and remove the
12 silence. You can also specify a minimum length for silence —
13 useful when editing very percussive material and just needing to
14 automatically trim the ends of a region. The dialog looks like this:
16 <img src="/files/a3/a3_strip_silence.png" alt="strip silence dialog" />
18 The edit applies to all selected regions, allowing batch processing.
19 You can also see in the screenshot how the main editor window is used
20 to show silent segments and report the number and durations of the