Abstract: An audio editing device for use with a television including a memory device for storing data representative of predetermined audio signals. Also included is a comparator for comparing the digital form of an input audio signal with the data of the memory device and, upon making a match, generating a first flag at a beginning of the data. A second flag is also generated at an end of the data upon locating a match. Finally, a squelch circuit comprises a flag sensor adapted to, upon the detection of the first flag, squelch the data until the sensor detects the second flag whereat the squelch circuit resumes the unmanipulated passage of audio signals to a television set.