How to use CleanTake

The whole philosophy: one file in, one file out. No timelines, no projects, no settings maze.

01

Drop a file in

Drag & drop a WAV or MP3 of already-recorded speech — a podcast take, a voiceover, a lecture recording.

02

It cleans locally

Steady room noise (fan, AC, hum) is removed on your machine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

03

Take the file out

A loudness-normalized clean file lands next to your input, ready to publish or edit further.

What happens under the hood

input.wav ──▶ ffmpeg ──▶ DeepFilterNet ──▶ loudnorm ──▶ output.wav
              decode      denoise (local)      normalize

ffmpeg decodes your input to a clean PCM stream.
DeepFilterNet (open source — credited, not claimed as ours) removes steady environmental noise.
loudnorm brings the result to a consistent loudness so it sounds right next to other audio.

Good inputs

Single speaker, recorded indoors, with steady background noise (fan, AC, hum).
WAV or MP3, any reasonable length.

Bad inputs

Multiple people talking over each other — CleanTake can't separate voices (limits).
Live audio — there's no real-time mode; it processes files.
Music or heavily distorted recordings — it's tuned for speech.

Last updated: 2026-09-29.