Change words without re-recording
Speech editing is in the Crele app as a preview. Drop a recording, change the words, and hear the stretch back in the speaker's own voice. Get 10 free edits after sign up.
“What's the difference in kind of how you would take an office hour like this when you're talking to a founder who is maybe three or four five or six months in?”
As recorded
Words changed
How do you replace a word in audio?
Crele's speech editing replaces words in a recording from the text: type what should have been said, and the speaker's own voice says it.
A name said wrong. A price that changed after the take. A sentence that came out backwards. Today the fix is recording the line again and hoping it matches. Here it is a correction to the words, and the recording comes back with the correction in it.
On video, the picture is untouched. That suits voiceover, narration, and any shot where the mouth is not the subject.
What it handles
- Short stretches
- The preview edits up to 30 seconds of a recording at a time. The edited stretch comes back as audio.
- Small changes
- A word, a name, a number or a phrase. It fixes a take rather than rewriting one.
- English, for now
- Best on English recordings. Other languages come with the model.
- Edits, not minutes
- A free account includes 10 edits. Pro includes 200 per month.
Why edits usually give themselves away
We went through every way a wrong word gets fixed today, and what each one costs.
Tools that regenerate a word already exist. What they get wrong is not the voice. It is everything around it.
A cloned voice is clean. Your recording is not. Drop a studio-clean word into a kitchen recording and the ear catches it before you can say why.
Crele's speech editing is built for that. It matches the new words to the room, the distance and the noise underneath, and the model keeps training toward an edit you cannot hear.
What you can do today
- Replace a word or a phrase
- Correct the words, then listen back against the original.
- Fix a name or a number
- The most common edit, and the one a reshoot is most often made for.
- Take words out
- Remove a phrase and the recording is remade without it.
- Work on a long recording
- Only the stretch around the mistake is edited. The rest of the file is never touched.
Check out our other models
Speaker isolation and speech enhancement run on this site with no account, and in the app on longer files.
Isolate a Speaker keeps one voice and removes everyone else. Enhance a Recording takes a rough recording, one voice or a conversation, and returns it clean. What they learn from real recordings is what the speech editing model is trained on.
Questions
- How do I fix a word I said wrong in a recording without re-recording it?
- Change it as text with Crele's speech editing. Upload the recording to the Crele app, type the word you meant in place of the one you said, and that stretch comes back in your own voice, ready to put into your edit. It needs no voice sample. It works on up to 30 seconds at a time, in English, and your first 10 edits are free.
- Can AI change one word in a recording and still sound like me?
- Yes. Crele's speech editing learns the speaker's voice from the recording, then says the new words in it, matched to the recording around them. It needs no voice sample.
- How can I replace a word in a podcast without it sounding edited?
- Use Crele's speech editing: mark the stretch around the word, type the new word, and the stretch comes back in the speaker's own voice, matched to the room around it. Lay it back at the same point in your editor, and listen against the original before you publish.
- Is speech editing available now?
- Yes, as a preview in the Crele app. Sign up for free and try it on your own recording, with 10 edits included.
- Why is it a preview?
- It is the speech editing model before its full release, open now so it can be used on real recordings.
- What does speech editing cost?
- Your first 10 edits are free. Pro includes 200 edits a month. The pricing page has both plans.
- Will the edit sound like the original speaker?
- Yes. Crele's speech editing says the new words in the speaker's own voice, matched to the room and the recording around them. Each take is kept, so you can listen against the original and try again.
- How much can I change?
- A short stretch at a time, up to 30 seconds: a name, a number, a phrase, or a sentence. On a longer recording, the stretch around the mistake is what gets edited and returned. Rewriting a whole take in someone's voice is a different product, and not this one.
- Does it work on video?
- On the audio track. The edited audio comes back to put into your edit, and the picture is untouched, so it suits voiceover, narration, podcasts published as video, and any shot where the mouth is not in close-up.
- How is this different from regenerating a word in a text-based editor?
- Text-based editors already regenerate a word from the transcript. What they hand back is a clean word in a recording that is not clean, so the edit becomes the tidiest moment in the take and the ear finds it. Crele's speech editing matches the new words to the room and the noise around them.
- Can I change what someone else said?
- Yes. Acting maliciously with the technology is not condoned, and Crele is not liable for what you do with the results.
Try it on your own recording
Sign up for free and get 10 edits to try on a recording of your own, no card needed. Listen to each edit against the original, and tell us what you hear.
