Best AI tools for filler words

Three tools, three handoffs

Cleanvoice takes the finished dialogue and strips fillers, mouth sounds, stutters, dead air, and noise. You can export the audio or a marker list for another editor. Sign-up includes 30 free minutes, no card. Pay as you go starts at $11 for 5 hours (credits last 2 years). A subscription is $11/month for 10 hours, and unused hours roll over up to three times the monthly amount. Files are deleted after 7 days.

Gling is a desktop app for a talking-head video. It cuts silences, bad takes, and filler words, then exports an MP4 or, on a paid plan, an XML timeline for Premiere, Final Cut, or Resolve. Free is 1 hour a month with a watermark and no XML export. Plus is $20/month or $10/month billed annually for 10 hours. Hours do not roll over. The site emails a download link because the app is desktop-only.

Descript removes filler words inside the transcript editor, on the same timeline as the rest of the cut. Free includes 1 media hour and a watermarked 720p export. Hobbyist is $16/month billed annually. You are paying for the editor, and filler removal is one of the AI tools on that plan, metered with AI credits.

Which recording you have

A podcast mix, a voiceover, or a video where you want the audio cleaned and the picture left alone: Cleanvoice. The marker export is the reason to pick it when a human editor still does the creative cut.

A YouTube video that is mostly you, and the first hour of the edit is deleting pauses: Gling. The XML export is the reason to pay, because the free plan keeps the cut inside Gling and watermarks the MP4.

An episode you are cutting by reading the transcript, with captions and clips in the same project: Descript. Buying it only to delete ums is a lot of app for one button.

The tool that does not do this job

Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech makes a noisy voice clearer in one pass. The web tool is free within a monthly cap. It does not delete fillers, and it does not hand you an edit list. Use it when the room was the problem. Use Cleanvoice, Gling, or Descript when the words were the problem.

Run cleanup on a copy if you still need a transcript. Heavy noise reduction can smear consonants, and a filler pass can remove a pause you meant to keep. The Audio cleanup and Podcast editing lists are the rest of the shelf.