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Re:Ask HN: Is Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer Currently Broken? by samdotdesign on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:21PM (#34941468)
Hey. I’m Sam, lead designer on the Adobe Podcast team. Sorry about this! The enhance speech feature is down, something happened overnight. We’re on the move for getting a fix out as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience! We’re really sorry about the inconvenience.

Re:Ask HN: Is Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer Currently Broken? by felpeth on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:27PM (#34941521)
Do you have an estimate of when the service will return? I have Videos to post on YouTube, and I need Adobe podcast to handle the audio, this will delay my schedule
Re:Ask HN: Is Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer Currently Broken? by albert_e on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:56AM (#34943448)
Wow didnt really expect to hear any confirmation, let alone a response from the product team :)

Thanks for acknowledging and working on it. As a unpaid customer I can surely wait :)

Can I sneak in a couple of questions while I have your attention?

1. The upload says it only accepts MP3 and WAV -- but it seems to accept AAC as well in the past when we force it to? Also, why not support all other commonly used audio formats as well - should be (relatively) simple to add a conversion step?

2. Can we get some controls on how aggressive the noise filtering applied is? The result in some cases sounds like abrupt cuts, flubbed words, speaker suppressing a hiccup or burp etc :))

Oh and a suggestion --

If the issue we saw yesterday was due to a service being down or broken, ideally the error message displayed should say so -- so users don't assume the issue is on their side with their input file and try repeatedly and waste their own time.

Re:Ask HN: Is Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer Currently Broken? by samdotdesign on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:45AM (#34944315)
The service is back working again. Enhance away!