Do you know what's great about text? It's really easy to find stuff! You just do a quick search on that website you bookmarked last week, and boom! – there is the name of that book that you had read about, but whose title you had forgotten. But on the downside, text is not always the best medium to consume information, for example while you are driving a car. That's why we like podcasts: you can listen to them while you are driving, walking, exercising, etc. Podcasts keep your hands free and your eyes on the environment around you.

The ...

Today we launched the open source Auphonic Mobile App for Android – download it from the Google Play Store!

UPDATE: we released a new Android App in 2016!

It includes the same features as our Auphonic Mobile App for iOS:

• create audio and video recordings
• manage your productions and presets
• use all Auphonic algorithms directly from your Android devices (via the Auphonic API)

In contrast to the iOS version, on Android it's also possible to create productions from pre-existing local audio and video files!

At the moment the Auphonic Audio Recorder is supported for Android ...

Getting started with podcasting can be a laborious process, because it costs time to produce and money to host a podcast.

At Auphonic, we are constantly trying to make this process simpler and cheaper, not just through our own free automatic audio post production web service, but also by offering tight integration with various third-party services.

In this article, we will show you how to set up a podcast in a few minutes for free. The final solution includes a blog with a feed from which your listener's can directly access your audio and video files, all hosted on ...

In case you have not noticed already, Auphonic now supports Amazon S3 and Archive.org as external services. Archive.org, also known as the 'Internet Archive', is a great service for publicly hosting audio and video files for free. Amazon S3, on the other hand, provides both free and affordable services for public or private file storage, featuring better download speeds and high durability. S3 also interfaces with Glacier, Amazon's cheap solution for long-term archiving and backups of data that does not require rapid access.

Podcast hosting is difficult: you have to create an RSS feed, a webpage and you must be able to serve audio files to a huge number of clients on your release date.
That's why we integrated the popular podcast hoster Libsyn (Liberated Syndication) as an external service in Auphonic. It's a great tool for file hosting and automatic RSS feed generation after processing and encoding your productions with Auphonic – you can even record your podcast with the Auphonic App and publish it with Libsyn immediately! :)

About Libsyn

Liberated Syndication was one of the first ...

We are happy to launch Auphonic for iOS today. With the Auphonic Mobile App you can record audio or video and upload it to the Auphonic servers for post production. It further allows you to view, edit and manage your productions, presets and mobile recordings.

You can download the App from the Apple App Store.

UPDATE: we released a new iOS App in 2016!

We have also made our application open source. Feel free to report issues, send pull requests or just check out the source on GitHub: Auphonic Mobile.

There is a whole lot of things ...

Do you want to process huge amounts of audio or video files in one single step?
That's why we built the new Auphonic Batch Production Interface!
It allows you to start multiple productions with an existing Preset and can be used for file-based, automated batch processing of audio file collections.

UPDATE:
Please see Managed Processing of Audio and Video Archives for bigger datasets, customization and dedicated hardware.

Step 1: Select Preset and Files

First you have to select multiple input files and one preset. A preset stores common metadata, output file formats, outgoing file transfers and algorithm settings ...

We are very proud to release version one of the Auphonic audio post processing web API. This is a complete REST API to all our algorithms and functionality, for example:

• audio loudness normalization to new loudness standards (EBU R128, ATSC A/85 and more)
• intelligent leveler, which balances levels between speakers, music and speech and applies compression as needed
• audio restoration algorithms, e.g. our automatic noise reduction classifies segments with different backgrounds and automatically removes noise and hum
• audio and video encoding to all common formats, metadata management
• automatic content deployment via Dropbox, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, YouTube, SoundCloud ...

This summer, we proudly released three important new features: video support, YouTube export for audio/video and the SoundCloud integration!
These features make it possible to use Auphonic for the automatic deployment of podcasts, screencasts, recordings, etc. to multiple platforms - see External Services.

The combination of SoundCloud and Auphonic provides a complete package for podcast post production, hosting, RSS feed generation and more.
Furthermore, the YouTube export function allows you to increase your audience through YouTube's content discovery mechanism, including listeners that you could not reach through a podcast RSS feed.

All file metadata, images and chapter marks ...

Because of so many requests we decided to release a preliminary version of our noise reduction algorithms. They are deactivated by default and you can activate them now in the production or preset form.
Additionally we included the possibility to enable or disable all auphonic audio algorithms :)

(poster from the movie Noise)

Current State of the Auphonic Noise Reduction Algorithms

The noise reduction algorithms are developed to remove constant background noise, hiss and hum in audio files with slowly varying backgrounds, such as lecture/conference recordings, static podcasts, etc.
They analyze the audio file, classify regions with different ...