


If the new version of Audacity is aiming for full digital audio workstation (DAW) functionality it wouldn’t be too difficult to automate this area. This will progressively remove the noise, as long as you can find a section with just that noise. You can then repeatedly click ‘noise reduction’. Within the app itself noise removal and repair allows you to clean up audio by selecting a piece with only the noise you want removed to get the ‘noise profile’. This only works for spoken-word recording, however. The ‘get more effects’ for noise removal and repair takes you to NVIDIA Broadcast which only works on Windows machines with a NVIDIA RTX GPU. Good clean-up tools, which show potential for automation.You can find links to other useful Open Source audio and audio-visual applications, that you can download and use, in the Audacity Wiki.Noise Reduction takes out unwanted background, as long as you can separate it (Image credit: Audacity).


Other Open Source Audio and Audio-Visual Applications You may copy, distribute, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL.To build Audacity yourself, download the source code.Although there are a number of sellers of Audacity software on ebay, Amazon, Microsoft Store and Apple Store, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have contributed in any way to the Audacity project.Source code and user manuals for some old versions are available on FossHub, as well as AppImages since version 3.0.3. For Linux, the appropriate version of Audacity for your operating system is usually included in your distribution’s repository.For macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Mac downloads page.For Windows 7 and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Windows downloads page.
