Keep the original recording available.
Preserve the original audio or video before making changes. If you recorded separate microphones, keep those tracks too. They give your editor more room to deal with uneven levels and overlapping answers.
For a future interview, make a short test recording and listen back before the conversation begins. Check both microphones, not just the interviewer’s.
Check every speaker.
Choose passages from both people, including quiet answers, laughter, interruptions, and moments when someone turns away from a microphone. The strongest voice in the room should not be the only test.
Pick one representative answer from each speaker and a pause between them. Compare those same passages before and after cleanup.
Understand what may not be recoverable.
A constant background sound and a sudden noise over a word are different problems. Clipped audio, strong distortion, or competing speech can obscure information that a cleanup pass cannot reliably restore.
Listen for intelligibility and natural tone. If a quiet answer becomes unstable or words drop out, keep the source and consider handling that passage separately in your edit.
Review the result with the picture.
For video interviews, check dialogue against the picture after processing and after any export. Listen across edits and compare transitions between cameras or microphones.
- Can you understand every answer?
- Do both speakers retain a natural voice?
- Does the sound remain aligned with the picture?
- Are changes in room tone distracting at the cuts?
Explore the Noise Remover workflow.
Noise Remover is being built for spoken audio and video. The AI audio noise remover workflow explains the planned upload, quote, processing, and download flow.
The prepared comparison sample is available now. File processing is coming soon; final supported formats will be published after testing.
Choose the right cleanup workflow.
For background sound under speech versus noise in pauses, compare noise gates and noise reduction. For a filmed conversation, also check video synchronization and the final export.