New voice cleaning tool from audio specialists

A new voice enhancement tool, Voice Regen, has been launched - but this one is different. It's from Waves Audio, an Emmy® and Technical Grammy® Award-winning audio technology company, rather than a random guy with an AI account. The tool provides content creators with instant, professional-quality voice cleanup. It removes background noise, room echo, and fixes uneven volume. Pricing starts for free, but $4.99 currently gets WAV export and 300 minutes a month. It also does video.

If you'd like to know what it sounds like - you've probably already heard it. The Podnews Weekly Review from Dec 19 included lots of individual pieces of bad-quality audio, recorded all over the world on laptop microphones, via AirPods, the tiny microphone on your headphone lead, or who knows how - some seemingly in bathrooms or echoey offices, others in low-quality low-resolution files. Testing the tool, we pushed them all through Voice Regen; and the sound is consistent throughout.

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In Australia, SXSW Sydney has been cancelled. It's reported that the NSW government, which had part-funded the event in previous years, had pulled out (in spite of having signed a five year agreement). There were "two dedicated stages" for podcasts at the event last year.

SXSW in Austin TX continues, including this year's Podcast Movement Evolutions.
The Domefest podcast festival in Sydney takes place on Mar 29.