How do I remove breaths from long recordings to save time?

I see a lot of folks stating to leave breaths in but I think it really depends on the context. Especially with professional voice actors who breath much more often, you definitely need to clean that up for certain productions. Honestly, just do what sounds good for what your end goal and medium is.

Izotope RX8 is the ultimate automated breath control remover. And noise remover. I haven't seen anything that touches it. I used to remove breath by hand too.

I believe yourself and Steve are arguing about two different things. You wish to reduce the sound of the breath but not remove the actual pause caused by taking a breath. Removing the pause of a comma or period when we intake break creates a VERY weird neural response. Steve is correct those pauses should stay, but you are also correct within that pause there should be no sound itself. Made perfect sense to me as well and I used your Noise Gate youtube video link to do it quickly and easiy, so thank you SO MUCH!! 🙂 

Try using AutoGate

You can't really remove breaths automatically - and by and large you shouldn't be, anyway - especially in something that claims to be explaining something.

The reason for this is gloriously simple; it's during the breaths that people assimilate what was in the previous sentence, and breaths are an important part of this. Put simply, removing breaths will reduce assimilation by your audience - probably the opposite of what you intended...

On top of that, breathing is a natural thing to do - everybody does it... so we are accustomed, when we listen to people in real life, to hearing them breathing. Remove that, and it sounds plain unnatural. If you want somebody to explain something, then let them do it naturally - it always works better.

As far as voice clicks are concerned, only remove them if they're really annoying - sometimes they are, especially if there are a lot of them. But once again, there's no way to automate this, I'm afraid - they are all unique.