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Today we released free updates for the Auphonic Leveler Batch Processor and the Auphonic Multitrack Processor with many algorithm improvements and bug fixes for Mac and Windows.

Changelog

  • Linear Filtering Algorithms to avoid Asymmetric Waveforms:
    New zero-phase Adaptive Filtering Algorithms to avoid asymmetric waveforms.
    In asymmetric waveforms, the positive and negative amplitude values are disproportionate - please see Asymmetric Waveforms: Should You Be Concerned?.
    Asymmetrical waveforms are quite natural and not necessarily a problem. They are particularly common on recordings of speech, vocals and can be caused by low-end filtering. However, they limit the amount of gain that can ...

We released an update of the free Auphonic iOS Recorder with new recording features (samplerate, precision), microphone input gain and monitoring support.


The Auphonic Recorder is a high-quality audio recorder with focus on ease of use, audio quality and stability. In combination with the integrated Auphonic Web Service, it’s possible to post process, encode, tag and publish your podcasts, interviews, music recordings on the go with a single click.

View Auphonic Recorder in App Store

Auphonic Recorder 1.2 Changelog

  • Monitoring Support: to hear the audio signal during recording with headphones.
  • Microphone Input Gain: if the recorded signal is too loud ...

Unlike videos, podcasts are hard to share on social media.
Auphonic can now generate shareable videos from audio files, including a dynamically generated waveform and your cover image (or possible chapter images) as background.

Audiogram screenshot from the podcast Forschergeist.
See our Audiogram Examples below for full example videos.

Why Audiograms?

Getting people excited about listening to podcasts on social media is hard.
A few services and tools emerged in 2016, which tried to generate shareable video clips from podcast audio files: WNYC Audiogram Generator, Clammr, Wavve and more.
Most of them include a dynamically generated ...

Today we released an update of the free Auphonic Edit Android app. It includes support for external storage devices, a new tablet layout, mouse support and much more.

Auphonic Edit is a non-destructive audio editor and recorder with focus on ease of use, high-quality audio and stability. In combination with the integrated Auphonic web service, you can post-process, encode, tag and publish your podcasts, interviews, music recordings on the go with a single click.

View Auphonic Edit in Play Store

Auphonic Edit 1.1 Changelog

  • Support for External Storage Devices: now you can save your recordings on external USB drives ...

Auphonic allows you to add external services to distribute processed and encoded result files to many hosting/storage providers or to your own servers.
We released an interface to Amazon S3 four years ago, now we open our S3 interface also for other S3-compatible storage providers like Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost and many more. They provide affordable, reliable and high-performance podcast/media file hosting.

All supported storage providers can be used for incoming and outgoing file transfers to/from Auphonic.
In this blog post, we will first describe the setup of a Generic S3 Account, then the integration of ...

After an initial private beta phase, we are happy to open the Auphonic automatic speech recognition integration to all of our users!

Our WebVTT-based audio player with search in speech recognition transcripts and exact speaker names.

We built a layer on top of multiple engines to offer affordable speech recognition in over 80 languages. This blog post also includes 3 complete examples in English and German.

Search within Audio and Video

One of the main problems of podcasts, audio and video is search.

Speech recognition is an important step to make audio searchable:
Although automatically generated ...

As of today a new update of the free Auphonic iOS Recorder is available in the App Store. It includes workflow improvements, some new features and many bug fixes:

View Auphonic Recorder in App Store


Recording (left) and Waveform (right) view of the Auphonic Recorder iOS app.

Changelog

  • Improved recording interface: remaining disk space, format, etc. is displayed during recording.
  • New recorder options menu: microphone and audio format selection, possibility to force mono recordings with stereo microphones.
  • Usability improvements when importing audio from other iOS apps: we removed confusing/duplicated sharing options and fixed problems while decoding files from other ...

Podcasts are great, but they have a discovery problem – the technology to change that is available.
Today we release a private beta version of automatic speech recognition integrated in Auphonic.

UPDATE:
Please read our new and updated blog post Make Podcasts Searchable (Auphonic Speech To Text Public Beta) !

Automatic Speech Recognition in Auphonic

Since recently, most automatic speech recognition services were really expensive or the quality was very bad. Broadcasting corporations spent big money to generate automatic transcripts to search within audio.
That changed, there are a couple of affordable (even free) services available now, which can ...

When producing a show on a regular basis, it's time consuming to add an intro or outro file to every episode again and again.
With Auphonic you can automate the whole workflow: you create intro/outro files only once and we automatically add it to every new production.

Use Intros/Outros with Presets

You can automatically add an intro and outro to any Auphonic production (see screenshot above), this works for singletrack and multitrack productions.
As intros/outros are intended to be used multiple times, they are only loudness normalized to match the loudness of your production without further Auphonic processing (no leveling, ...

Does anyone need an easy-to-use, free audio editor for the most used operating system in the world? Here is Auphonic Edit , a new audio editor and recorder for Android.

Auphonic Edit is a non-destructive audio editor and recorder with focus on ease of use, high-quality audio and stability. In combination with the integrated Auphonic web service, you can post-process, encode, tag and publish your podcasts, interviews, music recordings on the go with a single click.

View Auphonic Edit in Play Store

Integrated Audio Recorder

The focus of our integrated recorder is robust and high-quality recording:
It is possible to ...