How to improve voice recording?

[bluenite]

After the recording, the voice in a noisy environment, this record is quite incomprehensible. Although it is heard, but the place is covered with ambient noise, other voices or music. Is there a way to pull this voice, to suppress what I want? I know it's not easy, I'm interested in at least a small improvement in clarity. There is a procedure, or software, that can do it?
thanks for any advice
Peter

 

[Bobbsy]

I can't be certain without hearing your audio but there's probably not too much that can be done. You might get a bit of improvement by:

-if some of the background noise is fairly consistent, use a DAW with noise reduction capabilities (I use Adobe Audition but I'm sure there are others) to try and clean things up. It's often better to do several small amounts of reduction with a new noise print each time rather than trying to do it all at once which usually results in a very artificial sound.

-play with EQ, knocking off any unnecessary frequencies (high and low) and emphasising the frequencies that give vocal clarity. You'll have to experiment but it'll be frequencies in the upper mids that carry the intelligibility.

-if you have a DAW that allows spectral frequency editing you can sometimes go through and laboriously draw around and delete noises you don't want.

Really though, this is the sort of thing you want to fix during the recording. If you can avoid noisy places, great but when forced to work there you have to get the mic as close as possible to the voice and use a directional mic to reject sounds coming from other directions.