Guide to Trim and Edit Voice Memos on Mac and iPhone

iPhone's Voice Memos app allows recording any sound, whether it is the sound of the outside world or the sound happening on the iPhone device itself. During the recording process, there are always times capturing something unwanted, which is almost inevitable. Faced with the case, the only thing to do to eliminate the unnecessary parts is to trim and edit voice memos. For this, we share 2 different methods to get the thing done on different platforms.

Part 1. How to Trim Voice Memos on Mac Using Joyoshare Media Cutter

Joyoshare Media Cutter, applicable to both Mac and Windows, is your solid choice when you want to trim and edit voice memo on a Mac computer. In the industry, it officially attains perfection in cutting and trimming technology. Using it, cutting voice memos in any format, like MP3, M4A, OGG, FLAC, AC3, WAV, WMA, M4R, M4B, etc can be completed with high precision and totally original quality. More, it is developed with a basic editor, giving options to edit audio or video file flexibly. Coming with a friendly user interface, anyone, beginners or professionals, can handle it with ease.

Step 1: Add a voice memo to Joyoshare software

Get your Mac computer outfitted with the Mac version of Joyoshare Media Cutter. Open the software, and then click "Open" to import the voice memo file. Directly, drag the voice memo to the main interface.

Step 2: Confirm cutting mode and format

Now, click on the "Format" button. In the format window, choose the high-speed mode to trim your voice memo without quality loss. If there is a need for you to edit the voice memo audio file, it is suggested that you work with the encoding mode, which allows you to choose any audio format as the output format as well as to customize codec, channel, sample rate, and bit rate, in addition to providing the editing option. 

Step 3: Determine the cutting sections

Preview the uploaded voice memo and move the yellow timeline handles to set the start/end point of the voice memo file that you want to preserve. For more precision, draw support from the temporal interval setter. Just enter the specific start time and end time for the required voice memo part.

With the encoding mode, you also touch the "Edit" icon to trim the voice memo by dragging the timeline controllers and clicking the scissor-shaped icon. 

Step 4: Save the trimmed voice memo

Return to the main interface and press "Start" to export the resulting voice memo file to your Mac system. It will be by default saved into the local folder named "converted". You can hit on the "Open The Output Folder" to access the destination folder quickly.

Part 2. How to Edit Voice Memos on iPhone Using Voice Memos App

The built-in "Voice Memos" app on your iPhone is as simple as it looks. With it, you can create a voice memo, replace part of a voice memo, delete part of a ready recording, trim from the beginning to the end of a voice memo and share whichever you like to others. Here we will mainly show you how to use this app to edit voice memos directly on iPhone:

Step 1: Open the "Voice Memos" app on iPhone and select a voice memo that you would like to trim;

Step 2: Tap on the chosen voice memo and click the "..." to go for the "Edit Recording" option;

Step 3: Now click the  icon in the upper right corner;

Step 4: Move the yellow sliders to a position where you want for both beginning and end;

Step 5: Press the "Trim" button to trim the voice memo: click the "Trim Original" option to replace it with the original one or click the "Save As New Recording" option to create a new voice memo rather than overwrite the original one. Next, simply tap on the "Done" button to finish trimming the voice memo on iPhone.

For more info, please visit the source page:

https://www.joyoshare.com/video-cutting/trim-edit-voice-memos.html