Adobe Podcast

Adobe Podcast is a web-based suite for recording and cleaning up spoken audio, built by Adobe Research. Its best-known piece is Enhance Speech, a free browser tool that takes a rough voice recording, phone audio, a Zoom call, whatever, and strips out background noise, echo, and room reverb so it sounds like it was recorded in a treated studio. You just upload a file or paste a link and it processes the audio in a few minutes, no account or software install required for basic use.

Beyond cleanup, the site also offers a browser-based Recording Studio for capturing local, high-quality audio during remote interviews (each participant records locally so you avoid the compression artifacts of a normal video call), and Adobe has been layering in AI features like mic check and generative tools built on its Firefly and speech models. The target user is podcasters, YouTubers, and anyone doing interviews or voiceover who wants their audio to sound clean without owning a mixer, acoustic treatment, or editing expertise.

What sets it apart from typical noise-reduction plugins is that it's free, runs entirely in the browser, and is tuned specifically for speech rather than general audio, so it handles the plosives, sibilance, and echo of talking-head recordings particularly well. It's positioned as an entry point into Adobe's broader audio and video ecosystem (Premiere Pro, Audition) rather than a full standalone DAW, so it works best as the cleanup and light-recording layer rather than a complete production suite.