How to Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording

"- How can I remove background noise from a recorded conversation so only two voices remain?"

"- How to remove background noise from speaking part of audio?"

If you've ever recorded a podcast, music, or a speech, you're probably suffered from the problem of background noise - breathing, random voices, other ambient sounds, or various hums and buzzes, etc.

Fortunately, there are many ways to solve that. In this article, we’ll show you 2 most common ways to remove background noise from your voice recording: using online audio noise reduction tool, and an audio-editing program.

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Method 1 Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording Online with FlexClip

The first noise-removal tool we’re going to introduce is FlexClip. It's professional online tool for video and audio editing. It offers an AI audio noise removal & canceling tool to help you remove background noise from audios, voices, vocals, music, recordings and videos accurately and quickly.

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The interface of FlexClip is simple and intuitive, so noise removal from your voice recording in this too will be easy even for beginners. Check out the guide below to learn how to remove background noise using FlexClip.

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Step 1

Click the Start Now button above to access FlexClip, then go to the Media section to upload your voice recording. Or you can record a new audio using its voice recorder.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording Online with FlexClip - Upload

Step 2

Once you’ve got your voice recording ready, add it to the timeline, and set the scene duration to be the same as the audio file.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording Online with FlexClip - Set Length

Step 3

Now, you can select the audio track on the timeline, click the audio settings icon at the top left corner of the timeline area, then select the Reduce Noise option to automatically eliminate background noise in your voice recording.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording Online with FlexClip - Audio Setting

Step 4

Once done, you can edit or modify the noise-free audio according your needs - add fade in/out effect, background music, sound effects, etc. When satisfied, preview the result and download it.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording Online with FlexClip - Download

Pro Tip: Apart from the noise cancellation feature, FlexClip also offer many more great features, which include:

Vocal extraction or extracting musical instruments;

Edit audio through the cut, split, and change speed options;

Mix and overlap your audio tracks, and also sync audio with video;

Advanced AI features, like text-to-speech, AI audio translator, auto subtitles, etc.

Method 2 Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording with Audacity

Besides using an online noise remover to deal with the background noise in your voice recording, you can also try the desktop audio-editing program, Audacity. It is a free audio editing program created by a community of audio experts, offering a range of great tools for improving the quality of any audio. It is great if you need to remove background noise from audio associated with radio, podcasts, or music.

Here's how to use the background noise removal tools in Audacity, check out and quickly remove noise from your audio recording.

Step 1

Launch Audacity and load your voice recording file. Just go to the File menu, choose Open, and browse your computer for the audio recording file.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording with Audacity - Open File

Step 2

Locate a section of your recording that there's only background noise, preferably a few seconds long, and select it by left-clicking your mouse and dragging it.

Step 3

Once selected, go to the top of the screen, click Effect, then choose Noise Reduction.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording with Audacity - Noise Reduction

Step 4

This will bring up the Noise Reduction dialogue box, just click on the Get Noise Profile button here. Then Audacity will analyze the selected moment to figure out what the background noise sounds like.

Remove Background Noise from Audio Recording with Audacity - Get Noise Profile

Step 5

Once it's done, you can select your entire audio recording file to apply the noise reduction to. You can do this quickly by pressing Ctrl + A on a PC, or Command + A on a Mac.

Step 6

Now you can open the Noise Reduction menu again to ask the Audacity to use the noise profile it created before to remove all the matching background noise from your voice recording file.

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Has 4-year of professional photographing experience. Very much into recording every detail of life. She is passionate about all things related to video production, and loves to exploring tips and tricks about it.