Premiere Pro Enhance Audio is adding audio artefacts to my clips

Yes, I am having this same problem. In spaces of total silence in the audio (a Zoom call recording), Enhance Audio is adding (hallucinating) little samples of speech from a different part of the clip. Once it has started hallucinating a certain sound in a silent place, that same sound sample is repeated again in other silent parts of the clip.

I hope Adobe realizes that Enhance Speech is effectively broken right now. If it's going to add random sounds to my audio how can I trust it?

I have hours of online learning material that could benefit from Enhance Speech but I can't afford the additional time needed to fully check all exports for random sounds the AI improperly added.

"magically remove noise and improve the quality of your dialogue clips so they sound like they were recorded in a professional studio."

Unfortunately, what you've quoted is from the documentation / user-guide which one would hope would be as free of marketting speak as possible.

Note to Adobe on documentation: if the user guide is telling me something is done "magically", you're probably not doing a great job of explaining what your software does or how to use it.

R.

Thanks for responding R.

Yeah, it's a shame that it does a good job with speech but doesn't handle silence well! But as the marketing says "magically remove noise and improve the quality of your dialogue clips so they sound like they were recorded in a professional studio." 

If you listen to my clip again - the silence at 7.0 enhancement is great - it's just chucked in new sounds! And I like your tip about dipping the audio when there is no speech, but this could be a very manual fix for a supposedly time-saving filter.

And, it's still dropping these glitches into my standard dialogue, hence me not being able to use it at all.

Hello Mr. Nathan EB

"In this particular case, it would appear to be trying too hard to amplify/improve barely audible background noise or mic rustle as it gets worse the more I 'enhance' the audio."

While I have little experience with it, you seem to be referring to the Enhance Speech tool.  I think you have correctly described what is happening.

The Enhance tool in Enhance Speech is designed to 'clean up' and improve voice recordings. As such, it will be very sensitive to voice sounds (or sounds that are voice-like), and attempt to 'improve' them.

I'd suggest removing the passages with background noise/voices (and adding room tone to fill the gap) in your example above, leaving only those passages with dialog you wish to use, supported by room tone for continuity.

But as always, the first recommendation will be to focus on getting good clean sound in production.

R.