Topic / Audio editing
Fix clipping and background noise, choose a loudness target and compare AI voiceover options for videos and podcasts.
Check the recording before you process it. The clipping guide explains how to spot distortion that cannot be undone, which decides whether you clean up the take or record it again.
If the recording is usable, remove background noise next, then set loudness to a consistent target using the LUFS guide so episodes and videos play back at similar volume. If you would rather not record narration at all, read the AI voiceover comparison for usage terms and limits before relying on a generated voice.
How Audacity's profile-based noise reduction, Descript Studio Sound and Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech differ, where they fit in the processing order, and plan limits.
Compare built-in text-to-speech and voice cloning in Descript, Filmora, FlexClip and CapCut: languages, plan gates, credit cost, consent rules and commercial-use terms, plus a review checklist.
Spot clipping in Audacity, know what Normalize, Clip Fix and Loudness Normalization can and cannot do, and decide when to record again.
Apple Podcasts' published -16 LKFS target, what Spotify and YouTube actually document about normalization, and how to apply a target in Audacity.
What sample rate and bit depth mean, why video standardises on 48 kHz, what a 44.1 and 48 kHz mismatch does to pitch, speed and sync, and a settings checklist for mic, recorder, editor and export.
How Descript and Filmora build a cloned voice from a recorded sample, what each one checks before cloning, what their terms make you responsible for, and a consent checklist for cloning a teammate or guest.
What a compressor, a limiter and normalization each do to a voice track, the order to apply them, starting settings from Audacity and OBS documentation, and how they fit a -16 LUFS podcast target.
The four-stage AI dubbing pipeline, where translation errors creep in, what Filmora, Descript and CapCut each translate and charge, lip-sync requirements, and a review checklist before publishing a dubbed video.
Plain definitions of gain, clipping, headroom, normalization, LUFS, true peak, noise floor, gating, compression, sample rate and room tone, each tied to a concrete action, from the Audacity manual, Apple and Descript documentation.