Acon Digital has announced an update to their impressive dialogue noise suppression plugin Extract:Dialogue with Phase Correction and significant improvements in audio quality as the main focus of the release. We have the details…
In short, Extract:Dialogue separates dialogue from common types of background noise such as wind, rustle, traffic, hum, clicks and pops. Last year, we put it up against other noise reduction plugins in our Low Cost Noise Reduction Tools Shoot Out where it came out top in two of the four listening tests.
While the earlier versions of Extract:Dialogue reduced noise only by attenuating frequency components, version 1.5 uses a novel artificial intelligence model that can correct phase distortions and destructive interference between the dialogue and the noise signal. This improves the naturalness of the voice, especially when dealing with noise that overlaps with the dialogue in the frequency spectrum.
Extract:Dialogue 1.5 is also significantly faster than earlier versions with around 30% speed-up compared to version 1.2. The update also answers users’ requests to have smaller plug-in window sizes to save screen real estate.
Acon Digital’s Stian Aagedal joined us on a recent Production Expert podcast to discuss plugins, computers, processing, AI and more, take a listen here.
Pricing & Availability
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.
The upgrade to version 1.5 is free for current Extract:Dialogue or Acoustica Premium Edition 7 owners. For everyone else, Extract:Dialogue v1.5 is available for $99.90 USD or get it as part of Acoustica Premium Edition 7 (Acon’s powerful audio editing, mastering and restoration package) for $199.90 USD. A free demo is available.