> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.eversince.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # remove silence > Cut the pauses in speech and ripple the timeline closed behind each one, picture and sound staying in sync. Clips with word timing are cut between words; uploaded speech without it is listened to (a file too long for the call is queued and named in warnings). Leading and trailing silence, and gaps between clips, are left. Runs before remove_words when both are wanted, since every cut shifts the word indices. Nothing to cut returns the timeline unchanged with a warning, not an error. Free, except listening to speech without word timing: cloud processing. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json post /tools/remove_silence openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Eversince API version: '1' description: >- Every Eversince tool as one POST call, plus the routes beside them: the tool list, account and keys, uploads, webhooks and models. The prose is at https://docs.eversince.ai. servers: - url: https://eversince.ai/api/v1 security: - bearer: [] tags: - name: Discovery description: The tool list, the same on the MCP server, the REST API and the CLI. - name: Workspace description: Jobs, balances, settings, templates, skills and the overview. - name: Library description: >- Items, search, import, reading media, comments, boards, calendars, the brand kit and public links. - name: Timeline description: 'Video editing: timelines, clips, captions, sound, language and rendering.' - name: Canvas description: 'Still editing: canvases, slides, layers and rendering.' - name: Generation description: Image, video and audio generation, upscaling, cutouts and models. - name: Research description: 'What platforms publish: pulling and keeping posts.' - name: Account description: Balances, keys, workspaces and script sessions. - name: Uploads description: Files into the library by presigned upload or by URL. - name: Webhooks description: Job results posted to a URL as they complete. - name: Models description: Generation models and cost estimates. paths: /tools/remove_silence: post: tags: - Timeline summary: remove silence description: >- Cut the pauses in speech and ripple the timeline closed behind each one, picture and sound staying in sync. Clips with word timing are cut between words; uploaded speech without it is listened to (a file too long for the call is queued and named in warnings). Leading and trailing silence, and gaps between clips, are left. Runs before remove_words when both are wanted, since every cut shifts the word indices. Nothing to cut returns the timeline unchanged with a warning, not an error. Free, except listening to speech without word timing: cloud processing. operationId: remove_silence parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdempotencyKey' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/WorkspaceId' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: timeline_id: type: string description: The timeline id. min_silence_ms: description: Only pauses at least this long are cut (default 700). type: integer exclusiveMinimum: 0 speech_padding_ms: description: >- Quiet left at each end of every cut (default 100, a 200ms beat between lines). Zero cuts flush from word to word; a pause with nothing left once padded is not cut. type: integer minimum: 0 maximum: 2000 source: description: >- Which speech the pauses are measured between; all measures every clip that speaks. Default picks whichever the timeline has. type: string enum: - voiceover - dialogue - music - auto - all if_revision: description: >- The revision get_timeline returned. A stale one fails with revision_conflict instead of applying; so does no revision once a user edited the timeline in the app since this connection last read it. anyOf: - type: string - type: integer context: description: 'Optional: one sentence shown to the user beside this action.' type: string maxLength: 600 required: - timeline_id responses: '200': description: >- Done, or a job started for work that runs longer (follow it with get_jobs). content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - ok - data - meta properties: ok: const: true data: type: object additionalProperties: true meta: type: object properties: request_id: type: string cost: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Cost' cloud_processing: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CloudProcessing' media: type: array items: type: object additionalProperties: true default: $ref: '#/components/responses/Error' components: parameters: IdempotencyKey: name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false schema: type: string description: >- Retry a paid dispatch safely: the same key returns the job already dispatched instead of charging again. WorkspaceId: name: x-workspace-id in: header required: false schema: type: string description: The workspace this one call acts in, when it is not the key's own. schemas: Cost: type: object description: AI credits the call cost. additionalProperties: true CloudProcessing: type: object description: Cloud processing the call used, and what is left. properties: ran_on: const: cloud minutes: type: number queued_minutes: type: number left_minutes: type: number bought_minutes: type: number note: type: string Error: type: object required: - ok - error properties: ok: const: false error: type: object required: - code - message - retryable properties: code: type: string message: type: string description: What went wrong, in words to act on. retryable: type: boolean suggested_action: type: string description: The next step that works. cloud_processing: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CloudProcessing' responses: Error: description: The call was refused or failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' securitySchemes: bearer: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- An API key (es_live_…) from Settings, under API keys, or an OAuth access token. ````