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Dead air is an unintended stretch of silence in a recording. Here is why it hurts retention and how to detect and remove it before publishing.
Dead air is an unintended stretch of silence in a recording — a dropout, a long gap, or a pause long enough that a listener assumes playback has stopped. You detect it by scanning for sections that stay below a loudness threshold for longer than a set duration, then trim or tighten those sections before publishing.
Silence is one of the fastest ways to lose a listener. A few seconds of unexpected quiet reads as a technical fault, and many people skip ahead or drop off entirely. Catching dead air before release protects the perceived production quality of the whole episode.
AudioLinter flags dead-air incidents with timestamps as part of every analysis, so you can see at a glance whether an episode has silent gaps worth tightening. Trimming silence itself is done in your own audio editor: the cloud repair focuses on loudness and true peak, while dead air stays an advisory so you keep full editorial control over pacing.
Dead air is an unintended stretch of silence or near-silence in a recording — a dropout, a long gap, or a pause so long that listeners think playback has stopped. It is different from a deliberate short beat between sentences.
Scan the file for any segment whose level stays below a chosen loudness threshold for longer than a minimum duration. Each such segment is flagged with a start and end timestamp so you can trim or tighten it.
No. Loudness normalisation adjusts perceived volume; it does not shorten silent gaps. Dead air is fixed by trimming or tightening the silent sections in your audio editor.
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