https://doug.sh/tags/cli/ Recent content in Cli on doug.sh Hugo en-us Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/ Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/ <p>Linguists have a word for the <code>um</code>s, <code>uh</code>s, <code>er</code>s, and elongated versions (<code>ummmm</code>, <code>uhhhhh</code>) that pad spoken English: <em>disfluencies</em>.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;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 <a href="https://github.com/dougcalobrisi/erm" target="_blank" rel="noopener" > erm </a> to do it.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="background-color:#f8f8f8;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="display:flex;"><span>uvx erm input.wav </span></span></code></pre></div><p>That&rsquo;s the whole interface for the common case. It writes a cleaned <code>.wav</code> and a JSON cut list next to the input. This post walks through how it works, because the obvious approach doesn&rsquo;t sound very good and most of the code is the stuff that fixes that.</p>