Timeline
Automatic cuts you can actually adjust
Most tools that cut speech automatically hand you a finished file. Rescript gives you a real timeline underneath the transcript — waveform, playhead, word chips, and every cut drawn as a region you can drag, trim, restore, or reset. Deleting words is the fast path; the timeline is for the cuts that land a fraction wrong.
- Timeline
- Waveform, split, trim handles, draggable cut edges
- Delete words to cut footage
- Word-level, with a live preview of the cut
- Silence removal
- One click, pauses of 0.3s and over
- Filler word removal
- One click across the whole file
- Price
- Free and open source for noncommercial use
- Where your media goes
- Nowhere. It never leaves your device
Step by step
How it works, start to finish.
- 01
Cut by deleting words
Select text in the transcript and press delete. The cut appears on the timeline as a red region, the selection stays in sync between the two, and playback skips it immediately so you hear the edit as you make it.
- 02
Nudge a cut that lands wrong
Drag either edge of a cut region independently to loosen or tighten it — you can scrub while dragging to hear exactly where you are. Double-click to reset it. Select a cut and press delete to restore the words entirely.
- 03
Fix a word's timing
When the model's alignment bleeds into the word next door, zoom in and drag that word's start or end handle. The cut follows your correction rather than the model's guess.
- 04
Split and trim past word boundaries
Press S to blade the clip at the playhead, then drag a clip edge to trim wherever you want. Words the trim covers are marked cut in the transcript, so the text and the timeline never disagree.
Why an automatic editor needs a manual one
One-click filler and silence removal does most of the work on a spoken recording, and is confidently wrong often enough to matter. A cut clips the next word's first consonant. A pause you wanted disappears. None of that is fixable in a tool that returns a processed file.
None of those are fixable in a tool that returns a processed file. In Rescript every automatic decision is drawn on the timeline as something you can see and move. That is the whole argument for having a timeline at all in a transcript-first editor.
Built for a long recording
Scroll to zoom, side-scroll to pan. Word chips stay legible at every zoom level, so you always know which part of the transcript you are looking at. The playhead follows playback until you pan or zoom yourself, then stops fighting you for control.
The waveform is drawn from an envelope computed once when the file loads, rather than by holding the decoded audio in memory — an hour of it would be a few hundred megabytes sitting next to the model weights.
Keyboard, mostly
Space plays and pauses. S splits at the playhead. Delete cuts the selection, or restores it if what's selected is a cut. Cmd or Ctrl plus Z undoes, and adding Shift redoes — the full edit history, not just the last action.
The transcript and preview panes are resizable and the split is remembered, so the layout you like survives reopening the project.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Can I adjust the cuts Rescript makes automatically?
Yes — that's the point of the timeline. Every cut is a region you can drag by either edge, double-click to reset, or select and delete to restore the words entirely. Nothing about an automatic pass is final.
What if a word's timing is slightly off?
Zoom into the timeline and drag that word's start or end handle. This fixes the case where speech recognition bleeds a word boundary into the audio next to it, and any cut based on that word follows your correction.
Can I cut somewhere that isn't a word boundary?
Yes. Press S to split the clip at the playhead, then drag the clip edge to trim wherever you like. Words covered by the trim are marked cut in the transcript so the two views stay consistent.
Is there undo?
Yes, with full history — Cmd or Ctrl plus Z, and Shift to redo. Projects also auto-save locally as you work.
Does the timeline work for audio-only files?
Yes. Podcasts and voice notes get an audio-only layout that drops the empty video pane, with the same waveform, word chips, cut regions, and trim handles underneath the transcript.
Keep exploring features
Transcript editing
Delete a word, the footage goes with it.
Filler removal
Every "um" and "uh" in the file, in one click.
Silence removal
Cut every pause over 0.3s, then adjust any of them.
Speakers
Group the transcript by who is actually talking.
Regenerate
Rewrite a fumbled line, hear it in the original voice.
Weighing it against something else? See how Rescript compares.
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