The Best AI Audio Editing Apps and Plugins for Video: Revolutionize Your Workflow with AI Powered Audio Tools
Jourdan Aldredge
Jun 18, 2024
Whether you’re launching a podcast or cutting down hours of documentary video footage, editing audio can be a lot of work. We’re not saying it’s not fun to edit audio, but when your ears start to hurt from the headphones digging into your head it might mean it’s time to look for some helpful audio editing solutions.
Luckily, with the age of artificial intelligence finding new ways to automate laborious tasks, audio editing in particular is a prime target for AI-powered tools and innovations to help make audio editors’ lives easier.
So, regardless of your wide-ranging audio editing needs, let’s look at several AI audio editing apps, tools, and plugins which can help you edit audio more quickly, more efficiently, and without the pains of wearing headphones for too long.
Before we move into the different AI tools for audio that are more widely available for different apps and uses, let’s hyperfocus here at the start on the AI podcast editing software from Adobe.
And, if we’re being honest, these AI tools are not limited to just podcast use. If you’d like, you can absolutely use these AI audio tools for audio in other Adobe apps like Audition, Premiere Pro, or After Effects, or just as a way to clean up your long form audio or videos.
In particular we want to highlight these two AI-powered audio tools offered by Adobe:
Adobe Podcast, a podcast editing app which is currently only offered as a Beta version for interested users, also offers a Studio where podcasters can use these tools as well as more holistically record, edit, and enhance your audio and podcasts with their platform.
You can check out Adobe Podcast here.
Now, as far as AI for audio editing goes, let’s take a look at some of the best AI audio tools, apps and platforms that offer different audio editing, manipulation, and even AI generation, options.
Descript makes use of AI-powered features and an intuitive interface to help creators fuel their YouTube and TikTok channels, as well as produce podcasts and handle all other types of video and audio needs for marketing, sales, internal training, etc…
As far as AI-powered audio tools go, Descript offers plenty of AI features which add to its doc-like editing, including AI clip selection, transcription and captions, and even AI speech and voices which allow for users to create high-quality audio by just typing—plus the ability to either clone your own voice or choose from their stock AI voices to fix audio mistakes, generate audio for your podcasts, or even provide narration or voice over for your videos.
The next AI audio editing tool which we’d like to highlight is Murf, which is another text-to-speech (TTS) AI tool that lets users make studio-quality voice over in minutes.Murf’s lifelike AI voices are perfect for podcasts, professional presentations, or a variety of uses for video editing.
When looking at these text-to-speech AI audio editor tools, Murf stands out a bit for the app’s ability to play with different aspects of your AI-generated speech as you’ll be able to play with pitch, punctuations, and emphasis to make your AI voices better carry your messages however you like.
AI voices are one of the main ways in which AI is changing audio for video these days, and reviewing (and even trying out) these different tools can be helpful for any editors looking to create content for different channels and audiences—and especially helpful for those looking to create lots of videos on a short schedule and timeline.
We also have one more AI voice generation audio tool to share with you that offers both text-to-speech and speech-to-text options, as well as other voice cloning capabilities. Listnr is an AI audio tool that stands out for its diversity and multi-language options offering over one thousand different voices capable of speaking over 142 different languages—including your own.
The company touts that its AI voices are indistinguishable from humans and yet another solid option for you to consider for your voice overs, narrations, or any other voice-based editing needs. For video editors in particular, AI voice tools like this could be great for fixing mistakes or flubs in your videos as a seamless way to add audio from one of your subjects without bringing them back into the studio to record a few additional lines.
Moving on to other types of AI-audio editing tools, Krisp is an AI-powered app that’s primarily meant to be more of an AI-powered assistant for your meetings and calls. However, the tool stands out for its transcription and noise cancellation capabilities which could be quite helpful for your audio and video editing needs.
The AI noise cancellation feature offered by Krisp ensures maximum clarity by eliminating background noises, voices, and echoes from all types of audio—which for their brand is mostly coming from inbound and outbound meetings and calls.
If you do find yourself editing video or audio from Zoom interviews or other non-high-quality sources, Krisp’s AI noise cancellation tool can be a great way to clean up your audio and make it more high quality and usable in your videos.
Finally, if you’re looking for an all-in-one audio editing and distribution platform, Riverside.fm is a platform designed specifically for recording remote podcasts and video interviews which features several AI-powered audio editing tools and features.
In particular the Riverside Audio Editor allows users to edit audio faster and more professionally and also features a text-based audio editor. With this text-based audio editor interface users can trim audio by simply deleting text in the recorded transcript, which would be great for video editors looking to cut down dialogue or long-form documentary interviews.
Another tool which is similar to offerings in both Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve that is worth exploring.
Now, as is the case with any new AI audio editing plugins, tools and features, this technology is evolving at a rapid pace. So you can safely assume that any new apps or plugins that you find today are likely to have updates and new capabilities coming soon. As such, it’s always worth to further explore the options available to you and keep your eye out for new AI technologies.
That being said, here are some additional helpful AI resources and recommendations for working with audio in your videos.