Tonebenders’ host René Coronado wrote an interesting article for Pro Tools expert about his thought process when editing dialog for podcasts. Check it out here.
My goal is to seamlessly remove all of the little vocal hesitations, verbal ticks, and other fillers that are so pervasive in regular natural speech. This is much more than just the “umm”s and “uhh”s that most editors target. It’s also little phrases that we use to stall while we search for words. Phrases like “kind of” “sort of” “I mean” and “you know”. It’s also about removing repeated words, vocal misdirections, and all of the other things we say while we’re looking for the right phrasing for the thought we’re trying to have.