Enhance Speech (Beta Feature) - Audio Rendering Bug

[palmhousemedia]

First off, the new 'Enhance Speech' feature is very effective! It cleans up my audio in one click - better than I could do myself in Essential Sound. 

However, there is a common glitch I am running in to. When trimming clips for a piece-to-camera I'm working on, random parts of the interview start playing where I have made cuts. I assumed this was a render file/media cache issue so I've tried clearing it, restarting Premiere, restarting my machine. It is definitely related to Enhance Speech; when I delete it off the clip, the problem goes away. Great! I thought I could re-add the Enhance Speech effect, but the problem returns. 

The first time I had this problem, I managed to find a workaround (I think by dragging the clip back into the timeline from source, re-applying Enhance Speech). However it is a stubborn little bug and I can't seem to replicate an easy fix.

Also, in general, there is a bit too much render time with this feature - every time I trim a frame or two off a clip that has already been rendered, it requires additional rendering to be able to play back my edit. I'm sure this will improve with time!

Anyway I hope I explained it okay - looking forward to using this great feature in all it's glory.

[Casey25777868twbw]

I don't have a solution, but I wanted to mention that this is a big delay for me as well.  We are using this for podcasts that are 20 minutes long and with the required files needing to be rendered for playback while editing, it basically makes it unusable for me. 

The effect is great, but something needs to be done with the speed of render times.  

[Natasha.Stopdrop]

I have the same issue

[FFPCory]

Same issue. Anyone found a solution to this?

[BrianWilbur]

With enhanced speech, I find that the rendered audio does not approach anything close to what it sounds like from within the application.  It is often very faint.  My solution is not to use it ;(

[MaoSoto]

Enhance speech It's driving me crazy.  Every time I do anything, it has to re-enhance/re-render.  It happens when you make any cuts.  It also happens every time you reopen the project.
As a workaround, I decided to do the Enhance Speech for entire interview clips in a sequence/sub-sequence for each clip first, then work with sequences/sub-sequences inside Editing Sequences instead of cutting directly with the clips.   That fixed the issue of having to re-enhance with every cut.  The problem with the workaround is that Premiere re-enhances everything every time I re-open the project and/or every time I re-open a sequence.   So, I can't start working until I have reopened every sequence where I had applied the enhancement and then wait for everything to be re-enhanced.

Adobe, please, there has to be a better way to store the enhancement.
And, what seems to be very ironic is that if you don't like the result of the enhancement and try to re-enhance after having either de-click on the Enhance button or click on the Clear Audio Type button on Essential Audio, you will notice that that the re-enhance is done almost automatically, which means Adobe brings back the previous enhancement instead of re-enhancing.

[MaoSoto]

The only viable solution now is to Export all sequences I had created for applying the speech enhancement and import them as my new source clips.

[Kaxmerkhoff]

having the same problem – now also with the non-beta-version, where enhance speech is also available. anybody find a workaround/fix other then reapplying the effect all the time over and over until it works, and that every time?

[GiacomoBusetto]

What the hell are they waiting for to fix it?

[Bejinda]

I am also having this issue. It worked great for the first few clips I used, so I tried it on all of them, had a long wait time and then when I started editing again, there is random audio from another clip sitting atop the actual audio. Had to remove Enhance and it went away, but what a timesuck, and I'm not an audio aficionado, when it works, Enhance is way better than me. Hope they fix it soon. Unfortunate. 

[ryanh012]

I just ran into this. It's very annoying. My assessment is that there isn't a way to re-render or "queue" Enhanced Audio that it knows it has already processed. The only solution I came up with was to find the source file, duplicate it with a slightly different name, make the audio offline in my timeline, re-link the offline audio to the new duplicated source file, and then re-enhance the speech. then it will do it's whole process again as if it's starting from scratch. 

[robertr57603426]

I've found a temporary solution that might buy Adobe some time to sort out the bugs.

I have two computers that I use my Adobe account with: one is a laptop, the other is a desktop. For the last several years, the laptop has been able to handle premiere pro exceptionally well, and can even handle some small after effects tasks. It has 16 GB of RAM (no, I don't know all the specs off the top of my head). The desktop computer, in contrast, is about twice the strength with 32 GB of RAM, and is able to handle pretty much everything I think of for a video exceptionally well.

However, my laptop is getting on the old side. I've had it for several years now. It's scratched up. It runs slower than it used to, even with the memory cleaner I've kept all this time. There's some ports that no longer work. I know that now whenever I try to export a 4k video through premiere on my laptop, it's like it can't render the colors right anymore. Like it comes out like a glitched out TV. Of course, my desktop handles the exact same project just fine.

I've also noticed that every single time I try to use the enhance audio feature on my laptop, it bugs out with the echo effect that you're describing. However, it always works if I do it on my desktop.

Yes, they need to correct this so that even older laptops can handle it. In the meantime, I'd suggest finding a stronger or newer computer to render your audio. Just remember to make sure it's the stronger computer that starts the enhance feature. What I have started doing is rendering the raw (but cut out the bits that I needed) audio out on my laptop, then taking it to my stronger computer, and then enhancing the audio from there, and then sticking it into the project, and then exporting the same project from my desktop.

[michael_8021]

Unuseable? hardly. you may want to read up and maybe make some adjustments.

Sounds like your activating the Add-on and your pushing it's processing maximum up by moving that enhance slider to 10.

Try 6/5or even 7

Also, purge the entire render cache and re-render ALWAYS before watching a cut.
you'r machine has trouble enahcning audio? How does it handle video? Sounds like your machine is the problem.

Might be some serious user error as well. I'm cutting a 1 hour doc, using enhance speech across all of it.
Render times are good, if they are not for you in 2025, it is your machine.

Render times got CONSIDERABLY better in 2025, even noticing GPU utiulization flys up to 100% at full render.

Whereas 2024, not so much, previous versions down to CS6 - NOT SO MUCH.