
The longer this section is, the better your overall noise reduction will be.Ĭlick “Effect” -> “Noise Reduction”, and then press the “Get Noise Profile” button. This gives you the typical background noise that you want to remove.

Select a section of the audio where nobody’s talking. Open the audio track in Audacity, and noise-reduce ffmpeg takes care of the details:įfmpeg -i original_video.mp4 original_audio.mp3Ģ.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to reduce background noise, and I think I finally figured it out. I’ve been doing interviews at the OpenStack PTG this week, and the space I started in was very noisy.
