Ask HN: Is Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer Currently Broken?

DeScript but I like was this AI does with audio first before I pass it through DeScript. It's a free app for transcribing. Once you upliad your audio to a new project skip the transcription option and just go to the filters on the right and add STUDIO SOUND filter. Adjust the intensity after it filters out the noise. I usually have it at 80% to 90%. 100% usually sounds too choppy and robotic.

Do you have an estimate of when the service will return? I have Videos to post on YouTube, and I need Adobe podcast to handle the audio, this will delay my schedule

Wow didnt really expect to hear any confirmation from other users, let alone a response directly from the product team :)

Thanks for acknowledging and working on it. As a unpaid customer I can surely wait :)

Can I sneak in a couple of questions while I have your attention?

1. The upload says it only accepts MP3 and WAV -- but it seems to accept AAC as well in the past when we force it to? Also, why not support all other commonly used audio formats as well - should be (relatively) simple to add a conversion step?

2. Can we get some controls on how aggressive the noise filtering applied is? The result in some cases sounds like abrupt cuts, flubbed words, speaker suppressing a hiccup or burp etc :))

Oh and a suggestion --

If the issue we saw yesterday was due to a service being down or broken, ideally the error message displayed should say so -- so users don't assume the issue is on their side with their input file and try repeatedly and waste their own time.

EDIT:

The service now seems to be up but the AI processing is very poor. The resulting audio has so much of warbling/trembling artifacts on every syllable that it cannot be used at all. The original recording even with the noise and reverb from my room is much more listenable and understandable.

I hope you have some standard tests for your algorithm to measure teh quality of audio output for a given input clip

Thanks!

The service is back working again. Enhance away!

Looks like it

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