In Reaper audio software, there is a tool called Auto Trim/Split that will split an audio item on a track into multiple audio items. It will read the silence between "phrases" and automatically create splits at the beginning and ends of phrases. Then as part of that action, it will delete the "silence" sections. This is especially handy when you have a sentence, then silence, then another sentence, then silence, etc. and you want to be able to drag EACH sentence around on the track as its own audio/media item.

Of course you can edit the parameters like how much silence is needed between phrases before you consider that section to require slices. That way it won't slice every word out as its own item, but rather leave silence between words and only put a slice in if there is a full 2 or 3 (whichever you choose) seconds, so it slices out and trims full sentences, etc.

Can Vegas Pro do such a thing?

Thanks!