This free audio enhancer will totally transform your voice memos

Every now and then, you run into a tool that truly wows you.

It’s rare—especially nowadays, when everyone and their cousin is coming out with overhyped AI-centric codswallop that’s almost always more impressive on paper than in practice.

And that, if you ask me, makes it all the more satisfying when you track down a tool that really, truly impresses.

My friend, today is one of those days. Prepare to have your mind blown.

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Your instant audio enhancer

Our tool for today comes from a company you’ve almost certainly heard of. But I’d be willing to wager you didn’t know it offered this off-the-beaten-path treasure.

➜ The gem of which we speak is a simple little web app called, fittingly, ​Enhance Speech​—by Adobe.

• Enhance Speech lets you upload any audio recording of someone speaking.
• It’s technically designed for podcasters, but it could be useful for practically anything—a spoken memo, a recorded conversation, even a recorded phone call​.
• The site takes any recording you feed it and instantly improves its audio quality—removing background noise and enhancing the sound of the speaking so it’s crisp, clear, and easy as can be to hear, no matter how sloppily or in what kind of environment it was recorded.

⌚ It’ll take you about two minutes to perform an enhancement.

✅ And you don’t need to create an account or anything:

• Just open up the Adobe Enhance Speech site​ in any browser, on any device in front of you.
• Click or tap the Choose Files button—or drag and drop an audio file directly from your device onto the page, if you’re using a computer.
  • Enhance Speech works with most common audio file formats, including WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, and M4A.
• In a matter of moments, the site will serve up an enhanced version of your recording that you can either play on the page or download.

You can also just check out the built-in sample on the site’s main page to see how impressive of a difference its enhancements make. It really is something.

• Enhance Speech is ​entirely web-based​—no downloads or installations required.
• It’s free to use with recordings up to 30 minutes in length and 500MB in size, with a one-hour-per-day upload limit. You can lift those limits and unlock a variety of advanced features with a premium plan, but that absolutely isn’t necessary for the service’s core features—and the limits are plenty generous for most casual use.
• Enhance Speech follows Adobe’s standard privacy policy​, which ensures no personal data is ever shared or used in any eyebrow-raising way.

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