> That’s one of the things I do when editing my YouTube videos. Cut out all pauses in speech. This is also a something that NPR has been doing on shows for yea

> That’s one of the things I do when editing my YouTube videos. Cut out all pauses in speech. This is also a something that NPR has been doing on shows for years - perhaps not 'all' but they certainly do a lot of cleanup. They also have some training material online, which may be of use to many people doing editing: http://training.npr.org/audio/the-ear-training-guide-for-audio-producers/ http://training.npr.org/audio/the-ear-training-guide-for-aud... The transcript of Pulling Back the Curtain may also be of interest, I think it may have been rebroadcast at some point as well so audio may get turn up. Edit: http://www.wnyc.org/story/129697-pulling-back-the-curtain/ http://www.wnyc.org/story/129697-pulling-back-the-curtain/