How to Remove Profanity from OBS Studio Recordings

OBS Studio: Recording Without Censoring

OBS Studio is the standard for recording and streaming. OBS recordings contain everything: gameplay, voice, Discord audio, music. And profanity, if it happened.

OBS itself doesn't recognize words or censor audio — it's a recording tool, not an editor. There are two ways to go: put censoring inside OBS so both the stream and the recording come out clean, or clean a finished file afterwards.

Standard Path

1. Record your stream or session via OBS
2. Open the file (MKV/MP4) in a video editor
3. Listen through, find profanity
4. Split audio, add beep
5. Export the clean version

For a 2-hour stream recording — 2 to 5 hours of manual work.

Censoring Inside OBS: Live and in the Recording

VideoCensor for OBS is a filter plugin for your mic. Your voice goes on air with a delay — 2.5 seconds by default — and in that time the plugin recognizes your speech and covers ban-worthy words — the ones that get channels banned on Twitch, YouTube, VK Video and Kick — with a beep or silence. Swearing is optional: it's a separate level in the filter settings.

OBS records the already-beeped audio, so both the stream and the file come out clean — no need to process the recording afterwards.

What to know upfront:

• Delay: 2.5 seconds by default, adjustable from 2 to 10. The plugin delays your camera or capture card by the same amount, so your lips match your words. Game and screen capture stay real-time
• Accuracy: the filter works best on a voice in a mic. Noise or music over speech, several people talking at once, and slurred speech make misses more likely, and so does a delay under 2.5 seconds
• Internet: speech is recognized on the server. If the connection drops for longer than the delay, by default your stream goes quiet for that time, so no unchecked word gets through. The plugin reconnects by itself, and in the settings you can let audio through uncensored instead of going quiet
• Platform: macOS 11+ and OBS 30+ for now, a Windows version is in the works

To set it up: install the plugin, add the "VideoCensor — live censoring" filter to your mic and sign in with your browser. Step-by-step instructions are on the plugin page.

If the Recording Is Already Done

When a stream went out uncensored, you can clean the recording afterwards:

1. Finish recording in OBS
2. Upload the file to videocensor.ru
3. AI processes the recording in minutes
4. Download the clean version
5. Upload to YouTube/Twitch

Optimal Streamer Workflow

1. Add the VideoCensor filter in OBS — the stream and the recording come out without ban-worthy words
2. Run older VODs and recordings made without the filter through VideoCensor on the website
3. Publish on YouTube without manual editing

MKV Format

OBS defaults to MKV (more crash-resistant). VideoCensor supports MKV — no conversion needed. Or use Remux in OBS (File → Remux Recordings) for MP4.

Comparison

Recommendation

OBS + VideoCensor = clean streams and recordings without hours of manual work. The plugin beeps ban-worthy words before viewers hear them, and recordings made without it are cleaned on the website in minutes.