OpenSpeaks/3.0/Editing voice on computer

Voice of a person in an audio/video should be loud and clear. Any background music added during editing should have be less loud.
 * Eo circle blue white play-pause.svg You can learn here about editing an audio recording or audio part of a video recording




 * Steps:

We recommend Audacity for editing audio. It is a free software and works for computers with Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS.


 * 1) Download Audacity from https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ and install in your computer.
 * 2) Open after installation
 * 3) You will see a list of tools on the top of the window. If your language option is English, open "File" >> "Import" and select the location of the audio or video file.
 * 4) Go to "Effects" >> "Compressor". Click on "Ok". The loudness of the audio will be adjusted to a medium level.
 * 5) Go to "Effects" >> "Normalize". Click on "Ok". The loudness will be even.
 * 6) Now Go to "Effects" >> "Noise reduction". Click on "Ok". Some background noise will be removed. Play once. If you are not happy, undo ( Z in Windows/Linux and  Z in MacOS). You can repeat the process ("Effects" >> "Noise reduction"). This time move the adjust bar to the left or right. Listen again. Once you are happy, you can go to the next step.
 * 7) To save the edited audio, go to "File" >> "Export Audio". A format like ".wav" is recommended. Formats like ".mp3" are not of high quality.