I used to spend hours cleaning up audio for my podcast, now an AI tool does it in minutes

For my local history podcast, I recorded an interview in a noisy coffee shop last year. It took me like 4 hours in Audacity to manually cut out all the background chatter and hum. Last month, I tried a tool called Descript's Studio Sound feature. You just drag the file in, hit a button, and it strips out everything but the voices. The first time I used it, I got a clean file in about 90 seconds. Has anyone else tried different AI audio cleaners and found one that's better for really rough recordings?

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dylanbarnes23d ago

Man, that old Audacity grind was the absolute worst.

noahclark23d ago

I just used Reaper for all my podcast editing after that. The free trial never ends.

the_daniel6h ago

Honestly, I set up custom keyboard shortcuts in Reaper and it cut my edit time in half.