Clean up a voice recording
Drop in a voice memo, podcast, lecture or the sound from a video. It takes out steady background noise like hum, hiss and fans, cuts low rumble and evens out the volume. The audio stays on your computer.
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Deskshed, our desktop app for Windows. It works offline in one window, with real save dialogs, and adds whole-folder jobs for photos and PDFs. Pay once: $19 for the first 500 buyers, then $29.
See DeskshedClean up a voice recording at a glance
- Cost
- Free, with no watermark
- Account
- None needed
- Your audio
- Processed on your device and never uploaded. How to check
- You get
- A cleaned WAV file
- Limits
- Up to 30 minutes at a time; works best on steady noise like hum, hiss and fans
How to use it
Drop in the recording
A voice memo, podcast, Zoom recording or a video. Only its sound is used.
Choose how much to clean
Start with Reduce. If voices sound watery or hollow, go lighter.
Compare, then download
Play the original and the cleaned version side by side before you save.
Clean up a voice recording: common questions
What kind of noise does it remove?
Steady noise that's there the whole time: electrical hum, hiss, a fan, a fridge, air conditioning, computer whir. It learns what that noise sounds like from the quiet moments between words. Sudden sounds like a dog barking, a door or other people talking are part of the recording and stay.
Why does my voice sound watery?
That's the noise gate working too hard. Choose Reduce a little and try again. Recordings where the noise is nearly as loud as the voice are hard to clean without some of that effect.
Is my recording uploaded?
No. It's decoded and cleaned by your browser on your computer, and never sent to this website or anyone else.
Why WAV and not MP3?
Browsers can read MP3 but have no built-in way to create one. WAV keeps full quality and opens almost anywhere. It's larger, about 10 MB a minute in stereo.
Does it replace Krisp or Adobe Podcast?
For cleaning up a recording you already have, often yes, and it's free. Those apps also use AI models to remove noise live during calls and to handle changing noise, which needs more than a browser page.