{"summary":"A 45-minute episode at ~150 words a minute has about 115-128 um/uh fillers; 4 episodes a month is 460-512 fillers, about 38-43 minutes of cutting by hand at 5 s per cut. Descript Hobbyist ($16/month, billed annual; 10 media hours included) covers your 3 h a month and removes fillers from the audio itself with Remove Filler Words.","per_episode":{"words":6750,"fillers":{"low":115,"high":128},"manual_edit_minutes":{"low":10,"high":11}},"per_month":{"episodes":4,"hours_of_audio":3,"fillers":{"low":460,"high":512},"manual_edit_minutes":{"low":38,"high":43}},"descript":{"plan":"Hobbyist","usd_per_month":16,"billing":"annual","media_hours_included":10,"headroom_hours":7,"pricing":"https://www.descript.com/pricing?utm_source=oasy&utm_medium=gauss&utm_campaign=mediacopilot&utm_content=039iy0sb"},"assumptions":{"fillers_per_100_words":{"low":1.7,"high":1.9},"words_per_minute":"150 (assumed conversational rate; pass wpm to change)","seconds_per_manual_cut":"5 (assumed; pass seconds_per_cut to change)","counts":"um and uh only; all disfluencies (repeats, false starts) run 5-7 per 100 words"},"sources":["Liberman (Language Log), large spoken-English corpus: about 1 in 60 words is um or uh (~1.7 per 100)","Fraundorf & Watson (2008): 1.86 fillers per 100 words"],"disclosure":"Sponsored tool by oasy.ai featuring Descript. Descript prices from descript.com/pricing (checked Oct 24 2026); competitor prices and verdicts from The Media Copilot's hands-on reviews (March 2026).","docs":"https://www.oasy.ai/api/podcastedit/039iy0sb"}