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• A new voice enhancement tool, Voice Regen, has been launched - but this one is different. It's from Waves Audio, an Emmy® and Technical Grammy® Award-winning audio technology company, rather than a random guy with an AI account. The tool provides content creators with instant, professional-quality voice cleanup. It removes background noise, room echo, and fixes uneven volume. Pricing starts for free, but $4.99 currently gets WAV export and 300 minutes a month. It also does video.
  • If you'd like to know what it sounds like - you've probably already heard it. The Podnews Weekly Review from Dec 19 included lots of individual pieces of bad-quality audio, recorded all over the world on laptop microphones, via AirPods, the tiny microphone on your headphone lead, or who knows how - some seemingly in bathrooms or echoey offices, others in low-quality low-resolution files. Testing the tool, we pushed them all through Voice Regen; and the sound is consistent throughout.
• Audioboom has signed Crooked Media for hosting, global distribution and network advertising sales. Audioboom will also represent host read ads within Pod Save the UK.
• In Australia, SXSW Sydney has been cancelled. It's reported that the NSW government, which had part-funded the event in previous years, had pulled out (in spite of having signed a five year agreement). There were "two dedicated stages" for podcasts at the event last year.
  • SXSW in Austin TX continues, including this year's Podcast Movement Evolutions.
  • The Domefest podcast festival in Sydney takes place on Mar 29.

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