Enhance Speech has somehow gotten worse? Samples attached

[Dan27407918zbpm]

I have noticed over the past few months that Enhance Speech/Adobe Podcast has not been able to fix audio nearly as good as before a few months ago. When I first used it, I had an audio clip taken from a cellphone on a school bus and the Adobe Podcast made it sound infinitely better. My mind was blown by how good it was.

I took the same original audio clip and used the new Enhance Speech and now I can't even turn the setting above 3. It actually made the audio worse by introducing weird AI-sounding noises and did not remove any reverb or background noise. 

Check the attachments to see the reference audio samples. It's a clear day and night difference between the new and old versions of Enhance Speech. 

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

Thanks

[jvpent]

Yes! That's what brought me to this area looking for Adobe support. I, too, was blown away by the ability to upload my spoken audio files and almost instantly make them broadcast quality. I have changed nothing in the way I record my audio (weekly church sermons), but all of a sudden, back in December, it started garbling my audio so that I can't even use it now. Something changed on Adobe's end for the worse. Anybody from Adobe out there...? Please bring back the previous version. It was wonderful and had become a tool I loved and relied upon. 

[GreggDavidson]

August 2024 - same issue still unresolved. A weird warble is now introduced into my "enhanced" recording, making it worse than the raw recording.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @GreggDavidson,

Thanks for commenting on the bug report. The bug was reported several months ago. @Dan27407918zbpm and @jvpent, are you also still seeing this issue? Let the team know.

The team will need more information in order to reproduce the bug. See, How do I write a bug report?

I hope the team will respond to this issue shortly. I apologize for the frustration.

Thank You!
Kevin

[GreggDavidson]

I have a premium subscription to Adobe AI speech enhancer. It has been working great, but recently the enhanced audio is worse than the original, adding a distracting warble to the audio. I have been using the same microphone in all recordings in the same space, but now with different result. I have tried to see if the % enhancement can be adjusted to see if it makes any difference, but dragging the % enhancement bar to change the value always reverts to the same 90% enhancement. I am currently having to post my podcast without enhancement - quite frustrating.

[David Polk]

Hello Gregg,

We haven't made any changes to Enhance Speech recently. If you're willing to send me a sample, I will forward to our research team to look into it.

[GreggDavidson]

Well ... as I tried to figure out what was happening, I had a friend
listen. I had been using Bose earbuds to listen to the recordings. In the
original audio file, there was some background noise but the audio was
clear with no warble. After enhancement, background sounds improved but a
strange warble was added to my voice. I took out the earbuds to let my
friend listen from the computer speaker --- and the warble disappeared! I
don't know why Bose speakers would do that to an enhanced file and not the
original, but the problem appears to be a speaker issue, not the Adobe
enhancer.
Thanks for following up. If you have any insights into why this happens,
I'd still be happy to hear.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @Dan27407918zbpm,

Thanks again for the report. Since we've not heard back from you, let's move your thread to the "Discussions" forum for now. We can continue discussing the issue there.

Cheers,
Kevin

[ZozoLH]

I agree- Adobe enhance speech was great few months ago and now does a very poor job making voice loud but very buggy and weird. What happened? 

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[Chiedu7]

WOW, I thought I was the only one who noticed that all of a sudden that a quality drop in Adobe's Enhance Speech.

Sometimes the quality is worse than the original

[ChristianReady]

It's been a while since I used Premeire Pro but I have to agree that the Enhance Speech option sounds terrible, no matter how I tweak it. The voice sound warbly and the tone keeps shifting. Not sure what, if anything, can be done about it but I thought I'd mention it here.

[GreggDavidson]

My issue turned out to be a weird incompatibility with my Bose headphones.
Listening to the enhanced file through other speakers worked fine.

[David Polk]

Gotcha, thanks for following up!

[David Polk]

Hi Chiedu,
We haven't made any changed to Enhance Speech so it's curious to me that you're experiencing a drop in quality. Is the drop on the same files or different files? Our colleagues at Adobe Podcast just released a newer version of Enhance Speech you can try, too (it comes with your CC subscription): podcast.adobe.com