erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Linguists have a word for the ums, uhs, ers, and elongated versions (ummmm, uhhhhh) that pad spoken English: disfluencies.

I don’t record a lot of voice audio, but a few friends do, and they tell me editing those out by hand is miserable. So I built erm to do it.

uvx erm input.wav

That’s the whole interface for the common case. It writes a cleaned .wav and a JSON cut list next to the input. This post walks through how it works, because the obvious approach doesn’t sound very good and most of the code is the stuff that fixes that.

Give Your Coding Agent a Journal

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Journaling 🔗

Coding agents forget what they just did. The session ends, context gets compacted, or you walk away for lunch, and when you come back the agent is ready to try the same fix that failed an hour ago. The usual memory setups (CLAUDE.md, project wikis, and so on) are fine for things that don’t change much, but they don’t capture what’s actually happening in the task you’re working on right now.

Claude-Code on doug.sh

erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech

Give Your Coding Agent a Journal

Journaling 🔗