breathe

Every editor has a button that strips the pauses out of a video. This is the undo: the clip comes back longer, at exactly the same speed.

This clip is Spanish, spoken at 206 words a minute. It is 3.8% silence. Ordinary speech runs about 14%. Only 3 of its 235 gaps reach three tenths of a second.

It is not you

the gaps in it

this clip

ordinary unedited speech

how many pauses of each length, per minute of speech

before and after

another clip

It only ever adds silence, only between phrases, and never touches the speech: no time stretch, no pitch shift, no playback rate. The words come out at exactly the speed they went in. A clip that already breathes is handed back untouched.