[PLUG-TALK] Speakers for voice
Dick Steffens
dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Dec 5 20:46:23 UTC 2017
On 12/05/2017 12:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have a pair of inexpensive speakers that I've used for years. They're
> fine for the occasional youtube video or background music, but are not
> producing clear sound from a couple of podcast .mp3s.
>
> Before buying new speakers might audacity clean up the sound on these
> files? If 'yes' I'll find out how to do this.
Open the file in Audacity and look at the graph. Click on View > Zoom
Normal. If there's noise between voices, then Audacity can clean it up.
Highlight a bit of the noise that looks similar to most of the noise.
Then click on Effect > Noise Reduction and "Get Noise Profile." Move the
cursor back to the beginning of the file and click on Effect > Noise
Reduction again, and go to step 2. You can Preview (button on the lower
left of the Noise Reduction window) if you want to hear what it sounds
like. If you like what you hear, go ahead and click OK. Once that's done
(could take a few minutes) listen to what you got. If it made things
worse, just hit <ctrl>Z. If it wasn't enough, repeat until you're happy
with it.
I have had good success getting rid of restaurant background noise in an
interview between two people at a table.
HTH.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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