Do some minimal editing. Don’t try to delete every um and ah, that will take way too long. You can use the computer program Audacity for this if you want to be able to get into the weeds (free), or ask me who I pay to do my editing. There is also a program called Descript that I’ve heard is easy to use and costs $12/mo, but I have not used it myself.
My advice here: doing any amount of editing for ums, ahs and fillers will take, at a minimum, the length of the entire podcast episode, since you have to listen to the whole thing. This is more than a trivial inconvenience. It’s a pretty serious inconvenience! Instead, don’t do any editing of this kind (unless there was a real interruption or sound issue) and just train yourself not to use excessive filler words. People really don’t mind a reasonable amount of filler words, anyway. They are sort of like verbal punctuation, and the idea that you should not use them ever is a weird artifact of the way public speaking is taught.
You should edit your podcast for sound quality. Remove hiss, use compression and loudness-matching to even out the volume.
My advice here: doing any amount of editing for ums, ahs and fillers will take, at a minimum, the length of the entire podcast episode, since you have to listen to the whole thing. This is more than a trivial inconvenience. It’s a pretty serious inconvenience! Instead, don’t do any editing of this kind (unless there was a real interruption or sound issue) and just train yourself not to use excessive filler words. People really don’t mind a reasonable amount of filler words, anyway. They are sort of like verbal punctuation, and the idea that you should not use them ever is a weird artifact of the way public speaking is taught.
You should edit your podcast for sound quality. Remove hiss, use compression and loudness-matching to even out the volume.