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auphonic.com
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auphonic.com is the company blog at auphonic.com. Since 2012, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Audio post production web service (e.g. for podcasting)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly cite Auphonic's blog as a reference on audio work, such as loudness normalisation, codec2 low-bitrate podcasts and loudness measurement, and mention its podcast-processing tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The automatic audio post production webservice.
Most-linked posts?
- Audio post production web service (e.g. for podcasting)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-06-18
- Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-23
- /pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-20
What Hacker News says?
That's kind of like I do it [1], I only have a RSS file and the mp3 uploaded to the server. I send that RSS link to that one iTunes service so it indexes the RSS file so that all the podcast apps which use their API for their search can find my podcast and subscribe to the RSS file on my server and download the mp3's from my server. For the gear, I went fairly cheap, I got a Zoom H5 [2], which is super small, light…
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on “Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?”Submitted Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk as a story · 486 points
HN discussionThis. These are largely mixing decisions, although it would be kinda weird to have a whispering actor boosted to sound as loud as a train in a scene. The technical term for this is “Dialogue LRA” measured in LU: https://s3.amazonaws.com/izotopedownloads/docs/insight200/en... - this link also mentions some of the standards around this and now to use their software to adhere to those standards. LUFS is also relevant h…
Comment linking /blog/2020/10/08/dialog-loudness-normalization/
on “Modern movies teach us awful lessons [video]”Submitted Opus, the open codec for podcasts and Internet audio as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWow! Thank you so much! You are right, I need to get ASAP a copywriter. I'm curious why the Subscription + Onetime Credit is bad. But I agree it is confusing. My understanding is that not every customer wants or needs a subscription, since they upload podcasts irregularly. This business model is seen in other AI products: https://www.remove.bg/pricing https://auphonic.com/pricing I am very grateful, you took the tim…
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on “Show HN: Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing”Submitted Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk as a story · 5 points
HN discussionReminds me of https://auphonic.com/ Their pricing is also similar, but Auphonic allows both subscription and prepaid "credits".
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on “Show HN: Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing”Submitted Audio post production web service (e.g. for podcasting) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou could try running it through Auphonic's free tier https://auphonic.com/pricing
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on “Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka”Submitted Libsyn podcast hosting integrated in Auphonic automatic audio post production as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think you can pass the output audio file through https://auphonic.com/ and that will get the job done for you.
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on “Show HN: SpeechBoard – Edit Podcasts from the Transcript”Submitted Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think another big factor in podcasts getting more popular these days is that the content and quality of podcasts are getting better. Today you don't need equipment and staff only radio stations can afford to produce high quality good sounding content. A computer with an USB mic and Audacity together with a tool like Auphonic [1] are enough to get good sound. The internet makes it easier to research stuff and prepa…
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on “What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?”Submitted Loudness Normalization and Compression of Podcasts and Speech Audio (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso a number of different specifications for how it is measured. https://auphonic.com/blog/2012/08/02/loudness-measurement-an...
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/02/loudness-measurement-and-normalization-ebu-r128-calm-act/
on “Everything You Should Know About Sound (2016)”Submitted RESTful Audio Processing Web API Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow is this different from Auphonic? https://auphonic.com/features
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on “Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production”For all practical reasons I'd say yes, I'm using https://auphonic.com/ which does use machine learning to mute the parts where no human speaks, then they send this audio to third party (like yours) https://auphonic.com/blog/2016/12/02/make-podcasts-searchabl... then they get the files back so auphonic can bundle it for download with the rest.
Comment linking /blog/2016/12/02/make-podcasts-searchable-speech-to-text/
on “Show HN: Podscripter – Automated Transcription for Podcasters”This is a nice idea as there is a huge void left after RailsCasts hasn't gotten new episodes for a long time. What's a little bit negative is the sound quality of the screencasts, it's really, really bad. It would be a really important improvement if you got a proper studio microphone and did some audio post-processing (I recommend https://auphonic.com/ for this kind of stuff, it's magic what they do).
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on “GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers”For super low bitrate speech, (1.44MB/30 minutes is 6.4kbps), codec2 is better than Opus, and can go to even lower bitrates. When combined with WaveNet, the audio quality is incredible , though required compute power is ridiculous. https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-flopp...
Comment linking /blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-floppy-disk/
on “Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts”I'm currently working on a 2HD 3.5 inch floppy disk release of a podcast episode which has taken me down an interesting rabbit hole of low-bitrate audio codecs, floppy disk aesthetics and label design. The episode I'm releasing is 1h40m long, which sounds like it couldn't possibly fit in 1.44MB, but there's an obscure but free codec mostly used by digital HAM radio enthusiasts called Codec2 [1] which can encode huma…
Comment linking /blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-floppy-disk/
on “The floppy disk music scene”>maybe use a multi-track recording software and then adjust each speaker's track to match volume. Or just a compressor/limiter on the whole shebang will do a good job of normalizing the audio levels. http://auphonic.com/blog/2011/07/25/loudness-normalization-a... http://www.hometracked.com/2008/04/20/10-myths-about-normali...
Comment linking /blog/2011/07/25/loudness-normalization-and-compression-podcasts-and-speech-audio/
on “Kalzumeus Podcast 5: Quitting Consulting Via Productization”How does this stack up against something like Auphonic? https://auphonic.com/
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on “Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio”
