Shoutout to the old days of manually cleaning up audio files

I used to spend a full afternoon in Audacity trying to fix a 30-second voice recording, cutting out breaths and background hum. Now I just drop the file into an AI tool and it's clean in under a minute, which is wild. Anyone have a favorite AI audio cleaner they use for property walkthrough videos?

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the_eric1mo ago

Adobe's AI speech enhancer is pretty solid for that. It saves a ton of time.

tara7451mo ago

Wait, isn't that a feature in Premiere Pro? I thought the AI speech enhancer was just for cleaning up dialogue in video. For pure audio files, Adobe Podcast's separate web tool does a similar thing. Both are good, but they're different products.

davis.fiona1mo ago

Adobe's tools are great, but they lock you into their system. I've seen people get stuck when a client needs a quick audio fix and they don't have the right subscription. A free alternative like Audacity with the noise removal filter can get you 80% of the way there for zero cost. It's more manual, but you own the file and the process outright. That flexibility matters more than people admit.