Acon Digital, the Norwegian developers behind audio editing software and processing tools such as the powerful Acoustica, has updated their acclaimed dialogue noise suppression plug-in Extract:Dialogue to version 1.2. We have the details…
As the name suggests, Extract:Dialogue separates dialogue from common types of background noise such as wind, rustle, traffic, hum, clicks and pops. The algorithm works in real-time and is based on machine learning. Acon Digital has trained it on thousands of high-quality voice recordings as well as an extensive set of common noise sources to enable the artificial intelligence to automatically distinguish dialogue from noise without user interaction. The aim of all this AI is to make Extract:Dialogue extremely easy to use – just add it to your dialogue bus and let it do its magic.
With the release of v1.2, Acon Digital has improved their AI model further more, here’s the full details from the press release…
Extract:Dialogue version 1.2 includes a new and improved neural network model. A large set of high quality audio recordings is crucial for the training of neural networks. Acon Digital has teamed up with the sound effects company Soundly in their pursuit of high quality training data. Soundly is a complete sound effects platform with a user-friendly software package and a huge library of professional quality audio recordings.
“Our partnership with Soundly allows us to gain access to a massive library of consistently labelled audio recordings that we can use as high-quality training material for our neural networks,” says Stian Aagedal, CEO of Acon Digital, and he continues: “The quality of the training set is reflected in the robust noise suppression that the latest version of our Extract:Dialogue plug-in offers.”
There were also improvements in the structure of the neural network that lead to better performance and less perceivable artifacts.
Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue is available for both Windows (PC) and macOS (Macintosh). Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available for Windows and the version for macOS is 64 bit. The plug-in formats VST, VST3, AAX Native / AudioSuite and Audio Units (macOS only) are supported.
Price And Availability
Extract:Dialogue is available in the Acon Digital Store for $99.90 USD. Extract:Dialogue is also included in Acoustica Premium Edition 7.x, the powerful audio editing, mastering and restoration package that is available for $199.90 USD.