Field notes on cutting silence without it sounding cut, and on the fillers most tools never even look for.
"Um" and "like" are the tip of the iceberg. If you record in Hinglish, matlab, yaar, haan and na are doing just as much damage — and almost no filler-word tool catches them.
Every silence remover finds the gaps. Almost none of them cut the gaps without leaving your audio sounding clipped, rushed or robotic. Here's the actual technique.