Skip silent parts in videos and audio files.
"Skip Silence" is a browser extension that allows you to autmatically skip parts of a video that are silent.
It is highly inspired by CaryKH's automatic on-the-fly video editing tool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw).
The extension works with most websites that use a HTML5 video or audio element to play, this includes YouTube and Instagram.
The full source code of this extension is available on https://github.com/vantezzen/skip-silence, if you find any issues or have a question please visit https://github.com/vantezzen/skip-silence/issues.
This extension needs the following permissions:
- "activeTab" => Access the currently active tab to monitor the video or audio source's volume and speed up and slow down.
- "storage" => The extension saves the settings you set using the browser storage
We do not collect or save any usage or other data about the users of this extension.
Latest reviews
- (2023-11-06) kayronnBR: muito simples e pratico
- (2023-10-16) Ion Sastras: Is NOT WORKING IN BRAVE
- (2023-09-14) Kaden Jensen: Works great for me!! I used it on youtube with Opera browser. Made taking notes on my lectures so much easier!
- (2023-05-15) cristhofer anahua alagon: no me ayuda la verdad, mejor dicho nose como usarla
- (2023-05-14) 黒猫可愛いよね?: I like it very much, but I can't set a custom speed. (For example, 5.01x, 5.5x, etc.) I like it a lot, so it's a shame that this bug hasn't been fixed for a long time.
- (2023-03-30) Uros Ceranic: its well made but for youtube its really poor,doesnt work well becuse sometimes it doesnt do anything and brakes,skips mid music time (like 0.5 secs or a sec).
- (2023-03-29) David K.: i did not see that it worked any time
- (2023-03-19) Cesar Del Real: No funciona, no reconoce archivo multimedia y en el que lo logra reconocer solo distorciona el sonido. It does not work, it does not recognize media file and in which it manages to recognize only distorts the sound.
- (2023-02-09) JiaChen ZENG: Doesn't work
- (2023-01-01) Jakub Martinský: Its not as flawless as for example the option to cut silence in Google podcasts, but once you tune it properly it works. However Im not able to use fullscreen anymore on youtube.
- (2022-12-13) Maxi Zorat: This extension is magic!!! - WORK 13/12/2022
- (2022-12-06) Nicolas Alés: this extension doesn't work :c
- (2022-12-03) Angelic Dela Cruz: not working
- (2022-09-25) duuy: Time Saver for Programmers as me i hate videos that add some random thingy-
- (2022-09-16) Kishan: hmm idk
- (2022-09-15) Facundo Castro: don work
- (2022-07-30) George Kremenliev: mp4 meeting recording playback works just fine without the extension but the palyback is completely silent with the extension enabled (it even requires browser reload after a "disable" to play the audio again). (I am on Chrome 103 on Win11)
- (2022-07-11) John Fritski: I really love it. @developpers: The only thing is that after few seconds it stops to work. I hope you will be able to fix it. YOu can contact me for more details if you wish. Thanks
- (2022-07-10) Soroush Torkian: It's too laggy to click it from the toolbar but it's the only extension of its kind so I have no choice.
- (2022-05-27) Ömer GÜZEL: Thank you so much. However, I think there is a bug that voice and video is not synchronizing the option for it is not free(That is not good I think because it is a bug fix not a bonus). Also, being without shortcuts(current shortcuts are not good) are the big lackness.
- (2022-03-21) In Pink Spring: really love it although it's not so accurate comparing with ffmpeg, it's very simple and convenient
- (2022-03-05) Гера Татаринов: It takes about 5 minutes to start a popup window, but then works fine
- (2022-02-23) ApenasRR Mesmo: It's all I wished for many years! Thanks!
- (2022-02-15) Zgoly: Работает, но иногда подвисает.
- (2022-01-28) Saxon: Soo Genius, so well made. Very useful for me. Thankyou very much :)
- (2022-01-24) Lucas Pabarcius: has probably saved me >100 hours
- (2022-01-21) Макс Севостьянов: don't work in Vivaldi Brouser
- (2021-12-23) Elnikov Evgeniy: Really? Selling bugfix? Wait this move in W11 :D Can be good if developers fix this bug with sync...
- (2021-12-04) Kevin Nguyen: This extension is great. I've been looking for an extension to save time and this is the best I came across so far. I have suggestions however. There should be an option to have the extension on by default and an option to automatically turn on and off briefly to reset just in case when the extension isn't working right. The dynamic threshold could be stricter. I suggest a minimum threshold limit. I sometimes check and the volume threshold is under 5% and is barely skipping by. Thanks for this extension!
- (2021-12-03) Sebastian: Amazing.
- (2021-11-10) Guillermo Gumucio: Sadly stopped working on 10/11/2021
- (2021-09-16) Gordon Griswold: Well, since I already bought the developer "coffee", it seems to me that the beta feature should be available to me. However, the developer should accept payment from PayPal as an alternative to having me specify my credit card, which will not happen! BTW, the extension seems to work better on Firefox than on Google Chrome. The extension is a good concept, but needs work.
- (2021-09-04) Tayra: Cool!
- (2021-08-07) Yuval Krinsky: A must have for every student!
- (2021-08-06) Pradhyun: Dude please add support for zoom recordings page (https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/xxxxxxxxxx). It dosent detect audio in that site. please add it ASAP!!!.
- (2021-07-23) Lijo Joss: Excellent work here. It does the job. Makes life easier everyday. Well maintained and improved repo. the developer is very positive to issues raised. Kudos to him as well
- (2021-07-23) fact tact ask: incrediable !!!!!!!!!!
- (2021-07-09) antoni giantsoglidis: Works flawlessly. Requires some tinkering for best experience. I wish there was some hotkey functionality.
- (2021-05-10) Mike Turchenkov: Brilliant time-saver! Thanks a lot, works like a charm.
- (2021-03-16) Joni Rovio: Great extension! Thank you so much. The better you make it, the better it gets!
- (2021-03-09) rain puppy: one of the best extensions for chrome
- (2021-02-07) Linus Komnick: I love it! Great idea, great design, super useful! Thx for making it open source!
- (2021-01-30) ATHUL JYOTHIS: excellent product. but its not working for ms teams, all my lectures are in ms teams
- (2021-01-14) Александр Румянцев: It helps me a lot, I don't want to sleep in my lectures! Thank you a lot! The next era of skipping include skipping of the parasite-word and mmmmmm, aaaaaaa sound))))
- (2021-01-10) Jimmy Kwok: Working great with video speed controller, tons of time is saved :)
- (2021-01-07) Joseph Arney: Perfect except it turns off the silent parts' audio, I wish it just sped up and not mute Edit: I'm a dum dum and this was an option right in front of me
- (2021-01-05) Adam S.: This extension is so good! I am missing some functionality from VLC player like skipping 5 seconds forward and backward with a keypress, but this extension is so much better than VLC for long lectures. Thank you, it saves so much time
- (2020-12-10) Tymski: It's good, but it overrides the default playback speed. I use another extension to control the speed of videos and it would be great to use current video playback speed instead of the dropdown. Edit: from 5⭐ to 2⭐. This extension breaks features of various websites that have nothing to do with video.
- (2020-11-27) Jonathan L: worked and then is silent nonstop all of a sudden
- (2020-11-23) Louis Hong: A gift to humanity. Thank you.