# Introducing AudioShake Speech Recovery for Noisy and Low-Resolution Audio AudioShake July 7, 2026 Today we're introducing Speech Recovery, a new family of AudioShake models that recover intelligible speech from degraded, noisy, and low-resolution recordings. The suite launches with two models, Speech Denoise and Speech DeReverb, both of which create a clean speech track from a noisy recording without synthetic processing, so the output stays faithful to the source. A 911 call buried under sirens, a player’s lav mic in a noisy stadium, a source captured on a phone in a crowded street, archival footage where the picture holds up but the audio barely does. These recordings, where speech matters most, are often the hardest to clean, and existing tools run into one of two limits: some can't recover the speech, while others–harnessing generative ai speech enhancement techniques– clean it up so aggressively that they hallucinate content that was never there. Speech Recovery is built for exactly this gap: it recovers the intelligible speech already in the recording, without synthetic processing, so the result stays faithful to the source. ### AudioShake Tackles Speech in Low Resolution and Degraded Audio AudioShake’s Speech Recovery models were designed specifically for low-resolution and heavily degraded speech. Whereas our dialogue model was built to isolate clean dialogue from high-resolution recordings, Speech Denoise and Speech DeReverb make it possible to recover understandable speech from recordings that would otherwise be difficult or unusable. ### What is Speech Denoise? Speech Denoise improves speech intelligibility in noisy recordings by clearing the sounds that would otherwise drown out the words — hum, hiss, crowd babble, wind, and other environmental interference. It does this while keeping the natural ambience intact, so it doesn’t flatten the recording, and the audio still sounds like the space it was captured in. Speech Denoise also sharpens background speakers, not just the closest voice. And it holds up against novel, unexpected noises — a bus rolling past, a sudden clatter, a one-off interruption — exactly where traditional denoisers fail. It's built for the noisiest real-world recordings — emergency calls, field interviews, body-cam and surveillance audio, crowd-heavy sports captures — where the words are buried, but the audio has to stay true to what was said. ### What is Speech DeReverb? Where Denoise preserves the natural sound of a space, DeReverb deliberately removes it. In a reverberant space, sound bounces off hard surfaces, and those reflections trail the speech and smear the words even when nothing is technically noisy. DeReverb strips that reverberant room signal — early reflections, echo, and the room tail — to produce a dry, closer-sounding result. It works best when the room is the problem — an interview shot in a stairwell or large venue, a podcast tracked in a hard-surfaced room, dialogue captured inside a vehicle. Speech with reverb removed also speeds up ADR matching, editing, and transcription downstream. ### Use Cases for Speech Recovery Across Film, TV, Podcasting, and Forensics Speech Recovery is built for any workflow where speech is present but hard to understand, including: - **Broadcast and journalism**. Field recordings in noisy environments, sports audio under heavy crowd noise, and remote interviews captured outside studio conditions. - **Podcasting and content creation.** Remote interviews recorded over varied connections, guests in untreated home rooms, and on-location segments. - **Film and television.** Location audio compromised by weather or environmental noise, along with reverberant interiors. - **Public safety and forensics.** Emergency calls, low-quality surveillance and body-cam audio. - **Healthcare and legal transcription**. Recorded consultations and proceedings captured in noisy or echoey conditions are made clearer and easier to transcribe accurately. ### Try Speech Recovery – Available Now If you're working with low-quality or degraded recordings, see what Speech Recovery can do for you. Speech Recovery is now available via [AudioShake Live](https://live.audioshake.ai/), [AudioShake Indie](https://indie.audioshake.ai/), and via [AudioShake’s API](http://dashboard.audioshake.ai/) and [SDK](http://developer.audioshake.ai/). ### FAQ ##### What's the difference between Speech Recovery and generative audio tools like Adobe Enhance? Unlike generative enhancement tools, AudioShake’s Speech Recovery models isolate existing speech signals rather than regenerate them, which prevents synthetic artifacts, hallucinations, or over-sterilization that can make speech sound unnatural. ##### What’s the difference between Speech Recovery and audio restoration tools like Izotope Rx? Tools like iZotope RX typically require lengthy manual configuration and careful adjustment, which can struggle with unexpected or highly variable background noise. ##### How much does Speech Recovery improve Speech Intelligibility? Compared to the original untreated recording, Speech Recovery delivers nearly 2× clearer speech, over 2× better sound quality, and up to 4× less echo. ##### How does Speech Recovery compare to AudioShake’s Dialogue Isolation models? These models are designed to operate effectively on low-resolution and heavily degraded speech. ##### Where does Speech Recovery fit into an existing workflow? The Speech Recovery System can fit into a workflow in several ways: - Post-production: Apply before, or in place of, detailed manual cleanup. - Transcription and ASR pre-processing: Run audio through Speech Recovery before it reaches a transcription system. - Automated dialogue cleanup pipelines: Integrate via API or SDK as an automated enhancement step. - One-off file cleanup: Upload directly to AudioShake's web app for quick enhancement.