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One of the hosts of a podcast that I listen to has had positive things to say about DeScript.[0] Just mentioning it because he's been talking about it for a few years so I expect its had a good amount of feature development over time.

[0] descript.com/

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I love Descript. Their "convert to studio quality" feature is better than Adobe's and ElevenLabs, in my experience.

I wondered if this particular feature was really worth paying for so I was happy that I found Audapolis.

What does that feature do?

Its machine learning powered noise reduction + compressor + eq + normalize combo effect. Works ok. Results in quite a bit overdone “studio” sound. I think trend in mixing is leaning much more natural (less tweaked) nowdays. But for no work it might be impressive. Probably works in internal corpo presentations well.

What I particularly like about the Descript version (though it is overdone as mentioned) is that it reduces or eliminates the pesky S sounds and P sounds (called sibilances and plosives) that you get when you talk into a microphone and you're not perfectly distanced from it.

I haven't found another app that reduces or removes these.

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