How To Fix Reverb in Audition, from interview in an office

ClayAbles  wrote I recorded an interview in a decent size office and the reverb is bad. Please let me know what I need to do to fix it.

What little you can do with removing reverberation makes the remaining sound very 'strange', for want of a better word. This is because, even if you get rid of the reverb, you can't get rid of the early reflections from the room, and in isolation, these are very distracting, especially in something like an interview. On top of that, it's not a facility that Audition has, as it really doesn't work very well. You could try the de-reverb in iZotope's RX suite, but a) that's expensive and b) it still has all the same problems. It's a bit like trying to unbake a cake - once the ingredients are mixed and cooked, there's no going back.

Seriously, re-recording is your best bet. One thing you can try though is using Audition's Automatic Speech Alignment system. Get whoever was in your interview to speak the replies in a similar voice, only in a deader environment, and use the speech alignment system to 'refit' the words to the original sound. This will keep the timing straight, and you may well get away with this. It will certainly sound better than any of the de-reverb algorithms!

Unfortunately the only way to fix it is to rerecord it with a closer mic.  That aside Audition doesn't have any tools to remove reverb. There are some plugins and bits of specialist software that purport to remove reverb, mostly rather expensive. However they don't really make a very good job of it especially with speech. The best results are only obtained with basically percussive type sounds like over live drum kits IMHO.