To make one voice clear when other people are talking, do it in two steps. Keep only that voice with Crele’s free Isolate a Speaker tool, which removes everyone else. Then run what it keeps through Crele Remaster 1, which takes out the noise and the room and rebuilds the voice clean. Both are free to try in the browser.
Why can’t an enhancer remove the other voices?
A speech enhancer keeps every voice it hears, because the other people in your recording are speech too. Ours does the same: Crele Remaster 1 handles a whole conversation and rebuilds every speaker in it clean. That is what you want for an interview or a two-host podcast, and not what you want when the other voices are the problem. Keeping one person takes a tool that knows which person, and that tool goes first.
What if the other people belong in the recording?
Then skip isolation. If the other voices are part of the conversation, an interviewer, a co-host, a panel, run the whole recording through Crele Remaster 1 and every speaker comes back clean, with the noise and the room gone. Isolation is for the voices you want out: the next table, a TV, someone talking behind the camera.
How do you keep only one voice?
Crele’s Isolate a Speaker tool, running Crele Focus 1, keeps one voice and removes everyone else. It learns the voice from a few seconds of that person talking alone, follows it through the recording, and drops the other people and the background noise with them.
- Upload the recording. Audio or video: WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, MP4 or MOV.
- Mark three seconds or more of the voice to keep, talking alone. Clean matters more than long: a sample with two voices in it keeps both. If the person is never alone in this recording, upload a short clip of them from another one.
- Run it and listen. What comes back is that voice as it was recorded, room and all, with everyone else gone.
How do you make that voice sound studio-clean?
Run the voice you kept through Crele Remaster 1. It rebuilds the voice without the noise and the room, keeps the words as they were said, and gives it the sound of a close microphone in a treated room. Isolation hands it the voice as recorded, room and all, and the room is what comes off.
The isolation result has a Try speech enhancement link that opens the free enhance tool. To give it the voice you kept, download that voice first, which takes a free account, or run both steps in the Crele app.
Crele Remaster 1 lands close to the take without being identical. It rebuilds the voice rather than filtering it, so the timbre can shift a little, most on a rough take.
One recording, three ways: as it was made, with one voice kept, and with that voice rebuilt.
Original
One voice kept
One voice, rebuilt clean
Why isolate first and enhance second?
Because isolation reads the untouched recording best, where every voice is still as it was recorded and yours is easiest to tell apart. Enhancing first would rebuild the other voices along with yours and hand isolation a rebuilt file instead of the recording. Isolate first, then enhance the one voice that is left.
When won’t this work?
- Two people talking over each other most of the time. Expect traces of the other voice: where the two collide loudest, a little of it survives isolation.
- No moment where the voice is alone. Upload a separate clip of that person from any other recording; a voice memo works.
- A voice that is barely there. Isolation returns it faint, and where there is too little of it left to rebuild, that is past what today’s models can recover.
- Music under the voice. Crele Remaster 1 treats music as noise and removes it.
Questions
- Can Adobe Podcast Enhance remove other people's voices?
- It is not built to. Enhance Speech separates speech from noise, and another person talking is speech, so it keeps them along with you. To keep one person, isolate their voice first with a tool that learns it from a few seconds of them talking alone, then enhance what it keeps.
- Does this work on a phone recording or a voice memo?
- Yes. A voice memo that caught the whole room, a call, an interview in a cafe: any recording with the voice you want somewhere inside it. WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, MP4 and MOV all work.
- Will the result still sound like me?
- Close to the take, without being identical. Isolation keeps your voice as it was recorded. Crele Remaster 1 then rebuilds it, so the timbre can shift a little, most on a rough take where there is less left to work from. The words and the speaker stay yours.
- What if the other person talks over me the whole time?
- Expect traces of them. Isolation has to find your voice underneath theirs at every moment, and where the two collide loudest a little of the other voice survives. Give it the cleanest three seconds of you alone that the recording has, or a separate clip of your voice from another recording.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Both tools run in the browser on the first 45 seconds of a recording, with no account. To download a result or run a longer file, make a free account: it includes 300 minutes of isolation and 60 minutes of enhancement a month.
Get one voice, clear, out of a crowded recording
Make a free Crele account to download the result and run longer recordings through both models.
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