Bleep censor

1. Choose the video (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV) or a sound file (MP3, M4A, WAV and more), or try the example first.
2. Press Find the swear words. The speech is turned into text with each word's timing, and every swear word is marked.
3. Check it. Play it with the bleeps, click a time under Hear each bleep to jump to one, and click any word to bleep it or keep it. Check Bleep milder words too, or type others, like a name, to bleep those as well.
4. Download. Only the sound is re-encoded, so the picture is exactly as it was; a sound file comes back as an MP3. Download captions too, as an SRT with the bleeped words starred out.

It reads every word of the transcript, so it catches each form of a word (“f**king”, “f**ked”, “motherf****r”) and leaves words that only look alike, like “Scunthorpe”, “cocktail” or “assume”, alone.

Each bleep covers the word and a little either side, since a word's timing from speech recognition is close but not exact. If you can still hear the start of a word, set Around each word to Wide.

On YouTube, swearing rarely gets a video taken down, but it can cost ads. YouTube's advertiser-friendly guidelines count a bleeped or muted word as obscured profanity, which can earn full ads, while swearing in most sentences gets a video limited ads, and a clip focused on someone swearing can be age-restricted. A 30-second clip of a heated moment reaches “most sentences” fast. The full rules, titles and thumbnails included, are in can you swear on YouTube.

Bleeping also opens doors that swearing closes: brand deals that ask for clean content, a church, school or company channel, a client who wants clips of their stream or podcast without the language. And sometimes it's not a swear word at all, but a name, a phone number or an address said on a live stream that shouldn't be in the clip.

Clipping streams and podcasts is where the swearing is. Clyper finds the moments worth posting in a long video, cuts each one on whole sentences, frames it vertically on whoever's talking and captions every word. Bleep what needs it here, then add captions with the auto caption generator or turn a quiet clip up with the video volume booster.