Remove Buzz mixed with Speech

Question

I’ve got an old Hi-8 video I’ve digitized through Premiere. There is a buzz/static on the audio track. Unfortunately, it only appears WHILE someone is talking, and parallels the talker (like they're talking through a buzzy piece of wax paper on top of their normal voice) so there’s no way to isolate a noise print.

I’ve also been unable to isolate it using the equalizer or Noise Remover.

Any thoughts if such a thing is possible, and how I would go about it? Thanks in advance!

Stefan5D73 · Accepted Answer

That's a shame - it almost worked!I'm actually pretty happy with the Adobe alternate. It's understandable by and large. Thanks for your help! I never would have thought of searching for AI voice enhancers if you hadn't suggested it.

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

Natively this sort of problem is really difficult, if not impossible, to fix using normal 'linear' tools, which is what Audition has available. The one thing that I think you should try though (and I'd like to know how well this works) is to feed your example into Adobe's new online Speech Enhancer, which you will find here. This isn't a normal tool at all, and instead uses AI to recreate what it thinks you should sound like. I have no idea what it will do with this sort of distortion issue, but it's got to be worth a try. Nobody's actually said, but I think the reason that this is only available as an online tool is that it uses what can only be described as a significant degree of computing power. Hopefully this will one day be refined to the point where it can be included in Audition natively.

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