Audio enhancement

[Newchodge]

I recently needed to record a Teams discussion, but Teams did not, apparently have a record facility.

For reasons beyond my control, I had to use a headser and microphone. I recorded using a small voice recorder.

The recording has my voice perfectly, but the responses are almost inaudible - some words can be heard and there is always a background sound indicating someone else speaking.

Is there a cheap way to enhance this so I can hear the responses?

 

[martin_shl]

With an open source tool called Audacity, you can look for the Normalize function and it should bring all dialog up to the same level. You might also be able to reduce the frequencies of the background noise.

 

[Newchodge]

With an open source tool called Audacity, you can look for the Normalize function and it should bring all dialog up to the same level. You might also be able to reduce the frequencies of the background noise.

Thanks. Do I also need to download the audio.com cloud storage?

 

[martin_shl]

Thanks. Do I also need to download the audio.com cloud storage?

I've never used that so no, you can store locally

 

[FreddyG]

There are many ways to enhance audio but a great deal is down to the skill of the operator. A favorite software to use is iZotope, and you can download the full version for free; however, it creates a 5-second gap every minute. There are ways around this!

For regular normalising, I would use a compressor, and there is a choice of about five or six in Reaper. Again, a full version is test-drivable for free and with no restrictions. Possibly, the voices are muffled and this would require equalisation - Reaper here will do the job. BUT it is a fully featured audio workstation and may be therefore rather baffling to a layperson.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

If on a PC, you could use the XBOX screen recorder (normally already installed) or something similar that should record everything.