Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe’s free AI tool
Recently, Adobe released a free AI-powered audio processing tool that can enhance some poor-quality voice recordings by removing background noise and making the voice sound stronger. When it works, the result sounds like a recording made in a professional sound booth with a high-quality microphone.
The new tool, called Enhance Speech, originated as part of an AI research project called Project Shasta. Recently, Adobe rebranded Project Shasta to Adobe Podcast. Using Enhance Speech is free, but it requires creating an Adobe account and works best with a desktop web browser. Once registered, users can upload an MP3 or WAV file up to one hour long or 1GB in size. After several minutes, you can listen to the result in your browser or download the resulting cleaned-up audio.
In our tests with the service, Enhance Speech worked best with audio that contained a voice without crosstalk or excessive noise. For example, we recorded audio from an iMac's built-in microphone of a person standing 10 feet away, including fan noise nearby, and the resulting audio (once processed by Enhance Speech) sounded like it had been recorded up close in a noise-free studio with a professional microphone.
