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

Linguists have a word for the um s, uh s, er s, and elongated versions ( ummmm , uhhhhh ) that pad spoken English: disfluencies . &#xA; 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 &#xA; erm&#xA; to do it. &#xA; uvx erm input.wav&#xA; That&rsquo;s the whole interface for the common case. It writes a cleaned…