Remove Text for Hearing Impaired

Remove hearing-impaired annotations such as speaker names, sound descriptions, and music notations.

• Menu: Tools → Remove text for hearing impaired...

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Options

Remove text between

• [ ] — Remove text inside square brackets, e.g. [sound effect]
• { } — Remove text inside curly brackets
• ( ) — Remove text inside parentheses, e.g. (laughing)
• Custom — Remove text between any custom start and end characters
• Only on separate lines — Only remove the text when it sits on a line of its own

Remove text before colon

• Remove text before colon — Remove speaker labels like SPEAKER:
• Only if text is uppercase — Only remove when the label is in uppercase
• Only on separate lines — Only remove when the label is on a line by itself

Other

• If line is uppercase — Remove the whole line when it is entirely uppercase
• If line contains — Remove the line when it contains a given substring
• If line only contains music symbols — Remove lines that consist only of music symbols (e.g. ♪ Music ♪)
• Remove interjections — Remove common interjections like "hmm", "uh"; the dictionary used follows the selected Language

Interjections

Click Edit next to Remove interjections to modify the list of interjections for the selected language.

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Preview

All proposed removals are shown in a preview list with Before and After columns. Uncheck individual items to exclude them before clicking OK.