About the platform
AI post-production that makes spoken audio ready to publish
SoundForge cleans up noise, evens out levels, masters the final mix, and lets you edit by transcript — so podcasts, interviews, and videos sound professional without a studio engineer.
Overview
What is SoundForge?
SoundForge is an AI audio post-production platform. It handles the steps between a raw recording and a finished file — noise removal, leveling, mastering, and editing — in one place, with processing tuned primarily for speech.
Podcasters use it to polish weekly episodes, production studios to process client shows at volume, and creators to get clean dialogue for videos and courses. It also covers quick music mastering, stem separation, and noise cleanup when a project calls for it.
The problem
Post-production is where shows slow down
Recording a great conversation is the fun part. Making it sound clean and consistent is what fills the rest of the week.
Editing takes longer than recording
Cutting ums, dead air, and retakes by scrubbing a waveform can eat more of the week than the conversation itself.
Every guest sounds different
Remote guests, laptop mics, and echoey rooms leave one episode crisp and the next full of hum and room tone.
Loudness that's all over the place
Quiet hosts, loud guests, and segments recorded on different days force listeners to keep reaching for the volume.
Pro tools assume an engineer
Full DAWs have a steep learning curve, and hiring an audio engineer for every episode doesn't scale for independent creators.
Capabilities
How SoundForge helps
The repetitive parts of audio post-production, handled by AI and left adjustable by you.
Noise removal
Strip out background noise, hum, room echo, wind, and traffic while keeping the voice clear and natural.
Auto leveling & loudness
Balance speakers and segments and normalize to LUFS loudness targets, so episodes play back evenly without manual gain riding.
One-click mastering
Mastering chains tuned for speech, music, or mixed content, with EQ, compression, and stereo width you can adjust.
Edit by transcript
Delete filler words, trim silences, and move segments by editing text instead of a waveform. Available from the Pro plan.
Multi-track & stems
Process each track of a multi-track session on its own before mixing down, and on Studio, separate vocals, music, and effects.
Fits your pipeline
Connect with Riverside.fm, Descript, Dropbox, Google Drive, Zapier, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify for Podcasters.
Workflow
How it works
- 01
Upload your recording
Drop in a single file or a multi-track session in WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, or M4A.
- 02
Clean and balance
SoundForge removes noise and echo, then levels every speaker and segment to a consistent loudness.
- 03
Tighten the edit
Read the transcript, highlight filler words, long pauses, and mistakes, and remove them like text in a document.
- 04
Master and publish
Apply a mastering preset for your content, then export in the format, bitrate, and sample rate you need.
Audiences
Who it's for
Podcasters
Clean, level, and master each episode — including remote guest tracks — without learning audio engineering.
Production studios
Batch-process client shows, keep quality consistent across a catalog, and share work in team workspaces.
Content creators
Get clear dialogue for YouTube videos, online courses, and social clips without expensive gear or editing skills.
Principles
Product principles
The voice comes first
Processing is built around speech, so cleanup removes what's distracting without thinning out or over-processing the speaker.
Text is the interface
Most spoken-word edits are decisions about words, so SoundForge lets you make them in a transcript rather than on a timeline.
Consistency across episodes
Show profiles and loudness targets keep a series sounding like the same show from one week to the next.
Results without the learning curve
Sensible defaults get you a publishable result immediately, with EQ, compression, and mastering controls there when you want them.
Why SoundForge?
- Noise removal, leveling, mastering, and transcript editing in one place
- Broadcast-style loudness normalization for consistent playback
- Transcription in 30+ languages, with custom vocabulary for your show
- Per-track processing for multi-track recordings
- Import and export in WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, and M4A
- A free Creator plan to start, with Pro and Studio as your output grows
Make your next episode sound finished
Upload a recording, let SoundForge clean and level it, and edit the rest straight from the transcript.