Audio Enhancer

Descript’s AI audio enhancer isolates voices and removes background noise and imperfections, so your audio always sounds crystal clear. Improve the sound quality of all your audio and video projects in one click—whether you recorded on a laptop, your phone, or in a noisy room.

How to enhance audio and elevate voices with AI

Step 1

Record or upload your audio

Create a new project in Descript. You can start a recording or choose an audio or video file to upload and transcribe.

Step 2

Apply the Studio Sound effect to enhance sound

In the sidebar on the right, head to audio effects and toggle on the Studio Sound effect. Wait a few moments for your audio to process and play back your enhanced audio. Click Studio Sound to reveal the option to increase or decrease the intensity until you’re happy.

Step 3

Download your enhanced audio

Click Publish to export your enhanced voice as an MP3, WAV, or AAC audio file. Or continue editing with your enhanced voice track by editing the text in your transcript or timeline to create audio and video content.

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Audio Enhancer

Descript’s AI audio enhancer isolates voices and removes background noise and imperfections, so your audio always sounds crystal clear. Improve the sound quality of all your audio and video projects in one click—whether you recorded on a laptop, your phone, or in a noisy room.

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How to enhance audio and elevate voices with AI
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Step 1
Record or upload your audio

Create a new project in Descript. You can start a recording or choose an audio or video file to upload and transcribe.

Step 2
Apply the Studio Sound effect to enhance sound

In the sidebar on the right, head to audio effects and toggle on the Studio Sound effect. Wait a few moments for your audio to process and play back your enhanced audio. Click Studio Sound to reveal the option to increase or decrease the intensity until you’re happy.

Step 3
Download your enhanced audio

Click Publish to export your enhanced voice as an MP3, WAV, or AAC audio file. Or continue editing with your enhanced voice track by editing the text in your transcript or timeline to create audio and video content.

Studio-quality voices and crystal-clear audio in one click
Eliminate background noise & regenerate audio with AI

Descript keeps speaker audio intact as it automatically removes noise and applies speech enhancement to voices, so your vocal audio rings loud and clear. Any quiet parts or rough cuts can also be regenerated by sampling the surrounding audio for smooth, consistent, high-quality sound. Just highlight the moment and click Regenerate.

Sound your best—on any mic, in any environment

Descript’s recording features include Studio Sound for a live speech enhancer that improves voice quality as you record interviews and voiceovers. Just toggle Studio Sound on before or after you record, and adjust the intensity of the effect. Recorded with your laptop mic? Dog barking in the back? Bring your worst and sound your best with one-click AI audio enhancement.

Professional-sounding audio every time

Descript’s AI-powered voice enhancer tool is integrated into a versatile audio and video editing software. Create voiceovers, podcasts, presentations, courses, YouTube videos, and more—all with digitally enhanced speaker audio.

Questions? We have answers
How do you enhance voice quality in a video with Descript?

Enhancing voice quality in a video is the same as with audio. Just add your video to a project, and select the audio track you’d like to apply Studio Effect to.

Can I enhance background voices in Descript?

You can enhance background voices in Descript by splitting your audio track where the background voices occur and adjusting the equalization, noise reduction, or compression in the background voice track.

What types of audio files can I enhance with Descript?

You can enhance voice recordings in WAV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, M4A, FLAC audio output formats with Descript.

Is Descript free to use for enhancing voices?

You can try Studio Sound and other features in our AI suite up to 5 times on our free plan. Upgrade to use them without any limits starting at just $24/month.

Can I use stock voices with Descript?

Absolutely! You can clone your own enhanced voice or replace your voice with one of our many high-quality AI stock voices.

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More than a sound enhancer tool
Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editing tool that lets you edit podcasts and videos like a doc.
  • Video editing
    Edit all your video and audio projects as easily as editing a doc—with AI voice cleaning and audio enhancement features.
  • Regenerate
    Clone your voice in minutes to generate new speech, update content, and seamlessly blend and match tones—all without rerecording.
  • Remote recording
    Capture studio-quality audio and video remotely, even with unreliable internet, ensuring no lost recordings even with multi-guest sessions.
  • Remove filler words
    Improve more than just the sound quality of recorded voices—make them sound smarter too by instantly removing filler words such as “like” and “um”.