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Every recording you upload belongs to you, and you can clean it up at any time. The Edit Audio tool shows you a picture of your recording as a sound wave so you can see exactly where your voice starts and stops — and cut away anything you don't want.
Where to find it
- Open the app and tap your profile photo (bottom-right on mobile, top-right on web).
- Tap My Recordings.
- Find the verse you want to edit and tap Edit Audio below it.
Edit Audio only appears on recordings that belong to you. You cannot edit another family member's recording.
Reading the waveform
When the editor opens, you'll see a row of vertical bars representing your recording from start to finish.
- Tall bars — your voice. This is the part worth keeping.
- Short or flat bars — silence or very quiet background noise. This is usually what you want to remove.
Most recordings look like a flat stretch on the left, then a dense cluster of tall bars in the middle, then another flat stretch on the right. Those flat ends are the silence before you started speaking and after you stopped.
Setting your trim points
Two handles mark the start and end of the section you want to keep. By default they span the full recording.
- Drag the left handle to the right to cut silence from the beginning.
- Drag the right handle to the left to cut silence from the end.
- Aim to land just before the first tall bar (your voice coming in) on the left, and just after the last tall bar on the right.
The three boxes below the waveform update as you drag:
| Box | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Trim start | How far in from the beginning the cut starts. An orange note appears if you are removing time from the front. |
| Kept | The duration of the section you are keeping, and what percentage of the full file that represents. |
| Trim end | How far from the end the cut starts. An orange note appears if you are removing time from the back. |
Previewing before you save
Tap Preview to hear only the section between your handles. This lets you confirm the voice starts cleanly without cutting off the first syllable, and fades out naturally without clipping the last word. Adjust the handles and preview again as many times as you need.
Applying the trim
When you are happy with the selection, tap Apply Trim. The app sends the edit to be processed — this usually takes 10–30 seconds. Once done, the card refreshes and you can play the trimmed version immediately.
The trim is permanent on the recording your family hears. A backup of the original is kept automatically so you can restore it if needed (see below).
Restoring the original
If you trim too much — for example, you cut off the first word — tap Restore original directly below the recording. This appears on any recording that has been trimmed.
Restoring brings back the full untrimmed version exactly as it was when you first uploaded it. After restoring, you can open Edit Audio again and try a more precise trim.
Tips for a clean edit
- Leave a tiny sliver of silence (two or three flat bars) before your voice comes in — starting the cut right on the first syllable can make the recording sound abrupt when listening.
- The same applies to the end: stop just after the last word trails off, not in the middle of it.
- If a recording sounds fine as-is, there is no need to trim it. The edit is optional.
- You can trim and restore as many times as you like.