Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins

[Edit: indeed, its actually good that it's 2gb]

2gb plugin??!

Btw, does it work with tenacity?

I thought audacity was tarnished with spyware or something these days. Is it safe again?

I've been using the OpenVINO plugins for a few weeks and it's genuinely impressive. Noise cancelling is one thing, but the transcription tool is amazing. I can create subtitles from conference recordings in minutes and create transcripts of recorded zoom calls, etc. and it does it for multiple languages.

That's the kind of shit I like using AI for.

The music separation and speech transcription plug-ins actually sound nice. Obviously that will depend on how reliable they actually are.

I read "Audacity ads" and thought for a moment they had gone to the dark side

Use Tenacity instead

Windows only :(

I'm sure I used to use Audacity back in the day as a free, quick and dirty editor to splice up audio tracks. I'm talking at least 10 years ago.

Had no idea it was still even a thing.

Oh boy this is what I always wanted woooo

...and Audacity for Windows 64-bit is required to run these plugins.

Useless.

I wonder if it can "de-brickwall" music now

Awesome, useful features if they work well. I'll have to try it out.

Was the training data ethically sourced (for music generation)?

How do music creators feel about their work potentially being regenerated and used in other's works?

Audacity just doesn't seem worth the trouble after discovering Reaper and how powerful it is for only $60.