Key benefits:
- Simple workflow: Upload, adjust enhancement level, download
- Best for: Guest recordings with background noise or room reflections
- Main limitation: Cannot handle voice bleed from multiple speakers
- Alternatives: Descript’s Studio Sound, iZotope RX Suite
Struggling with background noise or poor audio quality in your podcast recordings? Adobe’s Enhance Speech AI tool might be exactly what you need. In this video, we break down how this powerful tool works, what it does best, what it still struggles with, and how you can use it to instantly upgrade your podcast’s sound. If you’ve ever recorded in a less-than-ideal space and wished your audio sounded more professional, this one’s for you! 2025.
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What is Adobe’s Enhance Speech?
Enhance Speech is one of the most powerful tools available for podcasters today. With just a few clicks, you can take a subpar recording, upload it, hit render, and suddenly it sounds like that recording was captured on an SM7B in a professional podcast studio. It’s part of Adobe’s podcast suite, and most of these tools are accessible directly from your browser.
How Does Adobe Enhance Speech Work?
The process couldn’t be simpler:
- Open up the website
- Drop your files in
- Adjust the enhancement scale to decide how much of the original recording you want enhanced
- Hit render and download your files
No plugins, no complex mixing, or expensive software required—just cleaner, clearer sound at your fingertips.
When Should You Use Adobe Enhance Speech?
Enhanced Speech excels at removing background noise from recordings made in less-than-ideal environments:
- Busy streets
- Live conference recordings
- Rooms with air conditioning noise
One of the best use cases we’ve found is for podcast episodes where hosts have a great recording setup, but their guests don’t. Perhaps guests are using an ambient room mic or their laptop’s built-in microphone instead of the proper microphone in front of them, resulting in distant audio with excessive room reflection.
We have saved numerous episodes that would have otherwise been unlistenable using this Adobe Enhance Speech.
What Are the Limitations of Adobe Enhance Speech?
The answer is both yes and no. While Adobe’s Enhanced Speech is impressive, it has limitations:
- Voices can sometimes lose their natural tone and sound robotic or overly processed
- Capturing the best quality at the source remains the most important part of a good recording
- Some recordings are simply too degraded to be saved, even with enhancement
One significant limitation we’ve observed is that Enhanced Speech struggles most with tracks containing audible bleed from someone else talking. The tool can’t distinguish between the primary speaker and voice bleed, resulting in strange artifacts and sometimes what sounds like an alien language in the final recording.
What Are the Best Alternatives to Adobe AI Tools?
If you’re looking for alternatives to Adobe’s Enhanced Speech, consider these options:
- Descript’s Studio Sound: A similar feature that applies AI algorithms to improve your overall sound quality
- iZotope’s RX Suite: The classic bundle most podcasters use for deverbing, denoising, declipping, and other audio cleanup tasks
Is Adobe Enhance Speech Worth Using for Your Podcast?
Adobe’s Enhanced Speech is a great tool, but it’s not quite the one-stop solution it aims to be yet. If you need to minimize room reflections or improve your overall sound quality, it’s definitely worth considering, but approach with realistic expectations.
If you’re looking to expand your team or talk to someone about improving your existing podcast, you can book a free discovery call with us at The Podcast Consultant using the link below. We’d love to discuss how we can support you on your podcasting journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
Adobe Enhance Speech is a browser-based AI tool that removes background noise and improves audio quality in podcast recordings. You simply upload your audio file, adjust the enhancement scale to control how much processing is applied, hit render, and download the improved file.
Adobe Enhance Speech is part of Adobe’s Podcast suite, which offers browser-based tools accessible without complex software installation. While some Adobe Podcast tools are available for free, premium features may require an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Check Adobe’s current pricing for the most up-to-date access information.
Adobe Enhance Speech can significantly improve poorly recorded audio by removing background noise and reducing room reflections, but it cannot completely fix severely degraded recordings. The tool works best when the original recording has clear speech, even if captured in a non-ideal environment. Starting with the best possible source recording remains essential for optimal results.
Yes, Adobe Enhance Speech can process audio extracted from video podcast recordings. This makes it particularly useful for cleaning up guest video calls or recordings captured through video conferencing platforms where audio quality may be compromised. The enhanced audio can then be synced back to your video during post-production.