Key takeaways:
- Studio Voice boosts audio clarity and removes background noise
- AI-powered feature also balances audio
- Studio Voice included in AISuite — launching January 2026
Audio has always been a tougher nut to crack for editors. A windy day outside, a cough, background noise in the room, or a poor microphone can render great video useless. Traditional editing doesn’t scale, either. The longer the video, the longer the edit.
That’s why we’ve solved audio editing with Studio Voice.
Applying Studio Voice to a video creates a more polished, professional sound without needing perfect gear or perfect recording conditions.
Studio Voice is just one of the many new features coming to Socialive’s AISuite in early 2026 — here’s how it works.
Clean audio in an instant
The obvious first benefit of Studio Voice is the output. With the click of a button, anyone can clean up audio and make it sound great. But it’s not just a fancy way to edit out a few stumbles or to remove a few obvious errors.
Studio Voice can fundamentally transform audio and bring a video into the 21st Century. Here’s a quick example of archival footage from coverage of Lou Gehrig’s final appearance at Yankee Stadium.
Before Studio Voice
With Studio Voice
Studio Voice not only removed some of the echo from the tinny 1939 audio track, but it also removed the background music and boosted the speaker’s audio levels.
While your recordings may not sound like they were one of the first “talkies,” this audio balancing helps speech sound clearer and more intelligible, gives voices more presence with crisper highs and fuller lows, and reduces harshness, muffled tones, or clipping.
The benefits of Studio Voice
OK, so you’ve heard the magic of Studio Voice, but the benefits go well beyond the output itself. There are a couple of considerations in particular that have made good audio hard to scale.
Time savings
It takes the average audio editor about 3 hours to edit 1 hour of audio, so good luck if you’re starting up a new podcast and plan to do manual edits. Studio Voice cleans up audio behind the scenes in minutes, so editors can work on something else.
There’s also no need to worry about reshoots. Every creator, editor, or enterprise video team will have been there. Lighting in the shot was great, everything looked fantastic, but the mics weren’t on — or there wasn’t a way to listen to the mic audio as you were recording, so you hardly noticed all the noise from traffic behind your shot.
Studio Voice reduces the need to go and record again because of bad audio quality.
Cost savings
If you’re outsourcing editing, this saves tons of manual work for your editor. And since audio editing can range between $50 to $100 per hour, every second counts.
The less obvious cost saving is in equipment. A good microphone is expensive, with common desk microphones costing upwards of $150 and solid wireless microphones going for around $100. Studio Voice can give you that level of production quality without the costly equipment.
Again, these kinds of hidden costs stand in the way of scaling video creation, but Studio Voice is here to save the day.
What else is coming with AISuite
Studio Voice is just one of the major new features launching with AISuite.
Eye Contact will give your presenters a more authentic look — and they don’t have to worry about the perfect take. Check out more details about Eye Contact here.