Skip silence

Skip silent parts in videos and audio files.

What is Skip silence?

"Skip Silence" is a sophisticated Chrome extension designed to enhance your viewing or listening experience by automatically skipping the silent portions of videos or audio files. The extension works with HTML5 video or audio players, making it compatible with popular platforms such as YouTube and Instagram. It offers full transparency with its source code available openly, and doesn’t collect user data, thus ensuring your privacy and safety.

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By: https://vantezzen.io

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.04 (97)

Version: 5.2.0 (Last updated: 2023-08-07)

Creation date: 2020-06-07

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
tabCapture
<all_urls>

Size: 1.22M

Email: ch*****@vantezzen.io

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 7975 ▼ 24

Other rankings

#3393 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2 #61 in video editing keyword 20 ▲ 3 #205 in video speed keyword 71 ▲ 7

Other platforms

Skip Silence (v5.0.8)

4.45

(11) 457

Skip Silence (v4.0.0)

3.00

(4) 705

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Extension summary

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"Skip Silence" is a browser extension that allows you to autmatically skip parts of a video that are silent. It is highly inspired by CaryKH's automatic on-the-fly video editing tool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw).

The extension works with most websites that use a HTML5 video or audio element to play, this includes YouTube and Instagram.

The full source code of this extension is available on https://github.com/vantezzen/skip-silence, if you find any issues or have a question please visit https://github.com/vantezzen/skip-silence/issues.

This extension needs the following permissions:

"activeTab" => Access the currently active tab to monitor the video or audio source's volume and speed up and slow down.
"storage" => The extension saves the settings you set using the browser storage

We do not collect or save any usage or other data about the users of this extension.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works well for certain users, particularly on YouTube and while taking notes.
Simple and practical to use.
No alternative options available for some features.

Cons

Does not work consistently and fails to recognize media files.
Requires manual enabling for each new tab or window.
Issues with speed control and audio distortion.
Struggles with background noises and quiet parts.
Not compatible with certain browsers like Brave.

Most mentioned

Does not work
Requires enabling for each window/tab
Inconsistent performance
Issues with audio distortion
Problems with speed adjustment

Recent reviews

Almost perfect. When increase the silent part's speed, it makes impossible to understand the words. However it was what I've been looking for and there isn't any alternative. Thanks