Removing a high-pitched child's voice from a conversational track

[zenpicker2]

I'm facing an audio restoration issue that goes beyond my skills. I have a recording of a book discussion that was intermittently disrupted by a boisterous kid in the back of the bookstore. I am trying to figure out tools/workflow for minimizing or damping the child's voice, which is quite a lot higher than the two male adults talking in the foreground. I've tried fiddling with it in spectral view with the heal tool, but my results are unusable. This isn't anything I've had to tackle before.

Any advice on how to quiet down that kid? I'm sure he was charming, but he doesn't belong in this recording. I'll attach a short WAV that illustrates what I'm up against. I'm in Audition Mac 2024.

Many thanks in advance!

Edward

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Very difficult to handle with Audition, but I dropped your sample into Adobe's Enhance Speech AI-based online app and it improves it no end - rather more than I thought it would! So give that a try and see what you think... (I've attached what came back)

[zenpicker2]

Awesome. Thanks, Steve! I will try running more of it through that beast and see what I get. It changed the timbre of the men's voices (one of them mine), but that might be ok in the intermittent spots where the kid is really loud. Can't wait to try this.