The Dreaded “Andumm” (Sounds like Ann Dumb)

When someone slurs together the words ‘and’ and ‘umm’ (so it sounds like Ann Dumb) it’s nearly impossible to remove the ‘umm’ and still have the resulting ‘and’ sound natural. Actually, there are several good tricks to do this type of edit but they all typically take a significant amount of time – and it’s still not guaranteed that the resulting edit will sound good in the end. That’s why I ignore each and every “Andumm.”

Of course you could try to find some other audio of the person saying “and” cleanly, and then use that “and” in place of the “Andumm.” But even that is not guaranteed to sound natural due to possible differences in tone, intensity and microphone proximity, etc.

How do you handle “Andumm” in the editing process?

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