Sound like a pro with Adobe’s Enhance Speech

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Attention all storytelling professionals! Are you tired of your video and audio recordings being plagued by things like background noise? If so, it’s time for you to try Adobe’s Enhance Speech. The free AI-powered audio processing tool makes your recordings sound like they’ve been produced in a professional sound booth!

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Enhance Speech came into existence as part of an AI research project, Project Shasta. It’s now been incorporated into the Adobe Podcast range. This tool uses a deep-learning model that’s been trained on numerous hours of clean and noisy audio. It ‘learns’ to single out human voice frequencies and creates an accurate copy, resulting in crisp, clear audio​.

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How to use it

Now, how can you use Enhance Speech to transform your recordings? It’s simple. Firstly, create an Adobe account. Once that’s done, you can upload an MP3 or WAV file—up to an hour-long or 1GB in size. Wait for a few minutes, and your enhanced audio is ready to be listened to directly in your browser or downloaded for use.

For the best results, use Enhance Speech with audio that contains a clear voice with minimal crosstalk or excessive noise. This tool works wonders in transforming distant or noisy recordings into audio that sounds like it was captured up close in a noise-free studio with a professional microphone​.

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More tools

Enhance Speech is part of Adobe’s suite of AI-powered podcasting tools, which includes the Mic Check tool (also free!) and a transcript-based audio-editing tool currently in beta testing as of mid-2023​. The Mic Check tool uses artificial intelligence to scrutinize your microphone setup and provide suggestions on how to improve the sound quality. It might suggest that you come closer to the mic, reduce background noise or adjust the gain for a better output. In essence, it’s an automated sound engineer that helps you fine-tune your audio setup to achieve optimal sound quality.

The transcript-based audio-editing tool is a cloud-based production utility that simplifies podcast editing by allowing users to input text commands instead of navigating a traditional audio timeline or mixer. By simply highlighting and deleting text, creators can easily remove unwanted sections from their audio.

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Don’t let poor audio quality ruin your recordings anymore. Try this and let us know what you think. Happy creating!