[ghaff]

>I find the cadence very unnatural when all the spaces between phonemes are removed.

Any editing can be overdone and, while I do a modicum of editing out umms, you knows, and other verbal ticks when I'm putting together a podcast interview, I'm not fanatical about it.

You do occasionally get someone who just speaks quite slowly and it is sort of annoying to listen to as audio. So I've done some automated gap reduction is a couple cases.

[intrasight]

What software do you use to automate?

[ghaff]

Audacity.