Cleanvoice AI Podcast Editor

🚀 Quick Verdict

Cleanvoice focuses on the most soul-crushing part of podcasting: manual surgical edits. It accurately caught 90% of mouth clicks and stutters that usually require zooming in frame-by-frame. The interface is refreshingly simple compared to heavy DAW software.

Overall Score	8.5/10
Best For	Solo founders and remote podcasters
Tested Plan	Pay as You Go (€10 for 5 hours)
Testing Period	7 days
Biggest Strength	Accurate stutter and filler detection
Biggest Weakness	Limited creative control over transitions
Best Alternative	Descript

🤔 What Is Cleanvoice?

Cleanvoice is an AI-powered audio editor designed to clean up pre-recorded podcast files. It specifically targets the noises that make a recording sound amateur, such as lip-smacking, heavy breathing, and filler words like “um” and “ah.” It’s essentially an automated sound engineer for people who don’t want to learn how to use Audacity or Audition.

Developed to save creators hours of manual labor, the tool uses machine learning to identify unwanted frequencies and patterns. While many tools do noise suppression, Cleanvoice specializes in the temporal rhythm of speech, ensuring that when it removes a silence or a filler, the resulting jump-cut sounds natural rather than robotic.

⚙️ How We Tested Cleanvoice

We used the Pay as You Go plan at €2 per hour to process three distinct files. Our testing involved uploading a 20-minute muffled Zoom interview to test the Studio Sound feature, a 10-minute solo recording filled with intentional stutters, and a multitrack recording with two separate guest files to check the Multitrack Editing synchronization.

✨ Key Features (What Actually Stood Out)

The tool stands out by focusing on the surgical details of content-creation rather than just filtering out hums.

• Filler Word Remover — It identifies “umms,” “ahhs,” and even regional fillers. In our test, it caught short stutters that other tools often miss or clip awkwardly.
• Deadair Remover — This doesn’t just delete silence; it shortens it based on context. It kept longer pauses between topic changes while tightening the gaps between sentences.
• Mouth Sound Remover — This was surprisingly effective at removing saliva clicks and lip-smacking sounds. We didn’t have to manually de-ess the tracks afterward.
• Studio Sound Nightly — This is their experimental enhancement algorithm. It significantly improved the depth of an iPhone recording, though it occasionally over-compressed the high end.
• Multitrack Editing — If you upload separate tracks for guests, the AI edits them in parallel. This ensures that a filler word removed on Track A doesn’t throw the whole conversation out of sync.

💰 Cleanvoice Pricing — Is It Worth It?

The pricing is transparent and highly flexible for founders who don’t record every single week. Credits on the Pay as You Go tier last for 2 years, which is better than the “use it or lose it” model of most productivity tools.

Plan	Price	Best For	Watch Out For
Pay as You Go	€1.33 – €2 / hour	Occasional creators	Credits expire after 2 years
Subscription	€10 – €85 / month	Weekly podcasters	3x rollover limit on credits

Our pick: Pay as You Go — Unless you’re pushing out 10+ hours of content monthly, the lack of a recurring bill makes more sense for testing the waters.

🧪 What We Found During Testing

When we uploaded a file with heavy background traffic noise, the standard Background Noise removal worked well, but the real magic was the Deadair Remover. It managed to distinguish between a thoughtful pause and a boring silence. We noticed that if you set the sensitivity too high, it can make the speaker sound a bit rushed, so we recommend the default template for your first run. The export process was fast, delivering a 30-minute file in roughly 4 minutes.

A founder in our community who runs a marketing agency told us that the tool saved their video interviews from sounding like they were recorded in a bathroom, specifically praising the lip-smack removal.

⚠️ Limitations We Found

• Over-processing — As of early 2025, the “Studio Sound” can sometimes make voices sound slightly metallic if the original recording was extremely low quality.
• Limited Granularity — You can’t easily tell the AI to “keep this specific ‘um’ for emphasis” without manually checking the whole file.
• VAT Extra — The prices listed on the site are excluding VAT, which is a small but annoying surprise at checkout for EU users.

⚔️ Cleanvoice vs Competitors

Cleanvoice is a specialist tool meant to be part of a stack, whereas some competitors try to be the entire recording and editing suite.

Competitor	Pick it instead of Cleanvoice if…
Descript	You want to edit audio by deleting text in a transcript.
Adobe Podcast	You need a free web-based voice enhancer and don’t care about filler words.
Podcastle	You want an all-in-one studio for recording and hosting in the browser.

👍 Pros & Cons

✅ Pros	❌ Cons
No credit card required for the 30-min trial	No built-in recording feature
Supports video files for social clips	Template settings can be confusing for beginners
Excellent multitrack synchronization	Requires manual previewing of heavy edits
Detailed removal of specific mouth sounds	Pricing is per hour, not per project

🎯 Who Should Use Cleanvoice (And Who Shouldn’t)

✅ Use it if you:

• Record remote interviews on Zoom or Google Meet and need to fix the muffled audio.
• Tied up with manual editing and want to automate the removal of “ums” and stutters.
• Are a developer looking for an API to process large volumes of audio content.

❌ Skip it if you:

• Prefer a text-based editing workflow; try Descript instead.
• Are on a zero budget; use the Enhance Speech tool from Adobe Podcast.
• Need a professional creative suite for high-end cinematic sound design.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cleanvoice AI free?
It offers a free trial with 30 minutes of credits. No credit card is required to test the features.

Does it remove background noise only?
No, it is specifically designed to remove filler words, stutters, long silences, and mouth clicking sounds.

Can I use Cleanvoice for video?
Yes, you can upload video files. It can mute the audio during edits to keep the video in sync without causing jump-cuts.

What are Cleanvoice credits?
Credits represent hours of processed audio. You buy them either via a monthly subscription or a one-time pay-as-you-go bundle.

Does it work for multiple speakers?
Yes, the Multitrack Silence Remover handles separate tracks for each speaker while keeping them aligned.

Is the data safe?
Cleanvoice is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified. They state that your audio is never used to train their AI models.

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