Automatically delete blank space

Hi all…

I am hoping someone has a handle on how to do this.
I would like to find a way to automatically scrub a track to remove blank space in speech…

As it stands, I have to manually select the pauses between sentences and even words… then delete them…

For example, if a sentence sounds like this:

“well… john decided… to… run to the store… that took a while… given that he wasn’t wearing… any… shoes…”

I would like to make it:
“well john decided to run to the store that took a while given that he wasn’t wearing any shoes.”
or even:
“welljohndecidedtoruntothestorethattookawhilegiventhathewasn’twearinganyshoes.”


Any ideas? Plugins out there? Something I could tweak thresholds and time intervals on?

thanks in advance…

Truncate Silence http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/truncate_silence.html