Repair a choppy recording

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 11, 2023
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Hello friends!

I got a video recording I have to edit and the audio is...OK. But it kind of stutters and chops like it was recorded with pretty bad latency or a slow computer. I don't want to ask for another recording since they did an excellent performance and the audio isn't a deal-killer.

But it drops to almost silent at several points throughout, making the whole thing sound rough, choppy, and stuttery.

Any chance to intelligently repair those tiny little gaps? I'm looking for the opposite of noise reduction I guess!

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Petri5

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I know this is a 3 years old post, but the Studio version of Davinci Resolve Studio lets you take a good part of a talking voice (like 10 minutes of good quality talking voice). After the training is done, you can select the damaged audio and it will speak the same words with the same intonation using the AI clone voice. It’s not perfect but it’s quite usable. Of course, if it’s something else than tallking, then this isn’t the option.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I think that the OP’s problem was that he didn’t have any good audio at all, never mind 10 minute’s worth. The other option nowadays is to use Adobe’s on line Enhance Speech tool, but in this case (it being a ‘performance’) I doubt whether it would help very much - it working best on plain speech.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I'm afraid that there's no software available anywhere that guesses what is in small breaks and then recreats it using the same voice. Basically, if you have gaps, or stuttering, chopping, anything like that - then you are short of information, and I'm afraid that's unfixable.

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BrandonPax8Author

Inspiring

Thanks - I figured. But a part of me is hoping that with everyone talking about AI, someone will say "Hey! There's this experimental new plugin."

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Yes - it's easy to imagine that things that seemed impossible years ago can now happen, or might be able to in the future. But this is like curing distortion - no original reference, so no accurate (or even inaccurate) fix. And that won't alter either.

I'd go back and ask them what else they've got...

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