Enhance Speech V2

[yash-lucid]

Enhance speech V2 is now available online.

My question to Adobe, is the enhanced speech in Premiere Pro's Essential Sound panel using V1 or V2?

This will help determine my workflow.

Thanks.

[PaulMurphy · Accepted solution]

I conducted a quick comparison between the web-based Enhance Speech tool and the version integrated into Premiere Pro.

To my ears, the web version sounds richer and seems to handle details like sibilance more effectively. I've attached the original audio, along with the versions enhanced using both the web tool and Premiere Pro, for your reference.

[yash-lucid]

Amazing feedback! Agreed and thanks Paul 

[Jarlskov]

How on earth do you make v2 sound like that? When I use it it sounds like someone has stuffed pillows in the mouths of the speakers and it likes to cut off the ends of sentences.

[Peter-Beart]

Immeasurably Better in my tests as well 

[hassan_4205]

This version should replace the one that Premiere Pro currently has because it makes no sense that it has Enhance option and use an old version.

[R Neil Haugen]

I think you might not appreciate the reasons for the difference ... we've been told that the online version is a heckuva lot more code, apparently massively so. Putting all of that in the installed code wouldn't be appreciated by many users.

[R Neil Haugen]

Paul's probably got that nailed. He's an editing guru par excellance, and audio is a particular emphasis of his.

It also ties in with the things the staffers have discussed about the processes. The online is always going to be using the newest machine learning processes, plus it has a vastly larger code base to work from. 

It's a much larger code base than they figure most of us would want on our machines. As well, we do want to have things like the OS, program files, projects, and even some media too, on our machines.

That isn't an exact quote, but a close paraphrase ... well, with some additions at the end. But I felt they were pretty much implied ... lol

[yash-lucid]

Ok noted thanks for letting me know

[Sootysax]

The 4 hours per day limit for the $600+ annual subscription I pay is a complete and utter joke.

[R Neil Haugen]

What's limited to 4 hours a day?

[Sootysax]

You can only use 4 hours per day of Enhanced Speech on Adobe Podcast with a Premiere Subscription

[R Neil Haugen]

If that was the cost for audio improvements alone, you might have a point.  But as that just happens to include the use of what, 20 some major apps? .... not so much.

An annoying limitation for some? Yep, totally understand that. But I would hazard a guess that under a 10th of a percent of users would be affected.

I get that it's a real pain for you though. I have my own pain points due to limitations on things I would use heavily. That aren't gonna happen, because so few other users would actually use them.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Podcast is not part of the Creative Cloud subscription, it's part of Adobe Express' "Premium" offering. Please feel free to make a feature request for better access to the tool. Perhaps even make it an "in app" option. I'd gladly help you advocate for that, @Sootysax. Sorry for the frustration on that one.

Cheers,
Kevin

[C Durward Rogers]

Hi,

I am a Premium user and Podcast speech enhancer still limits the its use. Professionals do not pay professional prices to have professional tool sets with these sort of limitations. In addition, if so few users would be affected, and they are Adobe's professional users, there is no excuse for this sort of limitation. None of this would matter, of course, except that the Podcast enhance is far, far better than the one built into Premiere Pro. So why are you doing this to your primo customers who work to deadlines and need your tools to earn a living? Is there an upgrade I can buy to get truly procfessional access to the truly professional tools? Please explain why this policy makes sense for Adobe and its professional users.