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: 4.11 (89) ▼ 0.04

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

Creation date: 2020-06-07

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
tabCapture
<all_urls>

Size: 1.22M

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

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 7943 ▼ 23

Other rankings

#2884 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 9 #37 in video editing keyword 25 ▲ 7 #168 in video speed keyword 68

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Skip Silence (v4.0.0)

3.50 (4) 775

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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

User reviews summary

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 great for speeding up lectures on YouTube
Simple and convenient to use
Useful for skipping silence in videos for note-taking or programming

Cons

Doesn't work well for YouTube videos
Laggy or slow to start
Can cause distortion in sound or affect video playback

Most mentioned

Not working
Works great for me!!
Doesn't work
Simple and convenient
Laggy or slow

Recent reviews

Felipe Mitjans, 2024-04-25

No funciona

The Legazz, 2024-04-25

absolute trash, barely works and never speeds up the actual long silence, only skips small silences?! how is this code even real?

Amidst., 2024-04-19

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Safety

Risk impact

Skip silence is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Skip silence if you trust the publisher.