Editing Words That Are Slurred Together

This is usually not easy.

The classic example is the infinitely-overused “And umm…,” which is usually pronounced, “Andumm” and it actually sound more like “Ann dumb.”

Try separating those two words. Have you ever tried that?

Sometimes people actually pause a TINY bit after “and” and before the “umm,” and this makes it easy to remove the umm.

But in most cases the two words are slurred together pretty well. For these cases, sometimes this works (and sometimes not): 1. Remove the umm, leaving as much of the D in “and” as you can. 2. Use a very quick fade at the very end of the D in the word “and.”

Sometimes this will sound natural enough. If not, you really have no choice but to leave the umm in there.

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