Help with cleaning up recording

[czaplin]

Hi,

I am making a video for a friend's memorial serivce.

It was recorded in a large meeting hall with a high ceiling, using an iPhone that was not placed all that close to the monitors. I know that produces less than optimal audio. I would have done it differently, but it was not my call. The end result is that I have to try to clean up the audio. The sound is muffled, low, with a lot of echo.

I was able to make some of the files at least passable, and added subtitles to help with understanding the words, but there is one file (attached) that I cannot clean up well enough. The speaker is a young woman with a lot of high-mid in her voice

I am sending the source file, but I have tried Parametric EQ (w/High and Low Pass Filters), Dynamics Processing, Noise Reduction (with selected Noise Print), DeVerb, and playing around with the Spectral Frequency Display. These techniques provide some improvement, but it is still not clear enough.

Is there something I can do to help make this sow's ear into a silk purse? The attached file is an MP3, because the source WAV was a little too large. I can send a Google Drive link if you need it.

[EuanWilliamson]

Audition will not help with this. 

Please try: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance

It's your best bet. 

[czaplin]

That was my fear. Thanks for confirming it.

I am processing the file with Enhance Speech now

[czaplin]

I actually tried this in Premiere, and while it did a bang-up job in removing background noise, it did not interpret the vocals correctly and the words were jibberish for the most part. I got the same results here.

Thank you for your suggestion

[Rag and Bone]

Yikes! I tried a number of denoise plugins that I have...It's not a matter of the voice being masked, .I just don't think there's any real information in the file. 

[czaplin]

Thanks for giving it a go. I really appreciate it. I'm trying extra hard on it because it's a personal project for a dear friend's memorial. Otherwise, I probably would have given up. I know it's pretty much a lost cause

[Rag and Bone]

I think the best you can do is caption that section, or, alternatively, do a voice over summarizing what was said, along the lines of: "Sharon said how much he meant to her...."

[czaplin]

I've been doing something similar with the rest of the audio. I've been able to clean it up to a semi-passable point and added subtitles for additional clarity, but this is just too far gone. I tried all the tricks I could figure out. I just reached out to see if there is something I was missing. This was a bit of straw-grasping, and potenitally a learning opportunity.

I do really appreciate the effort.