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Auphonic allows you to add external services to distribute processed and encoded result files to many hosting/storage providers or to your own servers.
We released an interface to Amazon S3 four years ago, now we open our S3 interface also for other S3-compatible storage providers like Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost and many more. They provide affordable, reliable and high-performance podcast/media file hosting.

All supported storage providers can be used for incoming and outgoing file transfers to/from Auphonic.
In this blog post, we will first describe the setup of a Generic S3 Account, then the integration of ...

After an initial private beta phase, we are happy to open the Auphonic automatic speech recognition integration to all of our users!

Our WebVTT-based audio player with search in speech recognition transcripts and exact speaker names.

We built a layer on top of multiple engines to offer affordable speech recognition in over 80 languages. This blog post also includes 3 complete examples in English and German.

Search within Audio and Video

One of the main problems of podcasts, audio and video is search.

Speech recognition is an important step to make audio searchable:
Although automatically generated ...

As of today a new update of the free Auphonic iOS Recorder is available in the App Store. It includes workflow improvements, some new features and many bug fixes:

View Auphonic Recorder in App Store


Recording (left) and Waveform (right) view of the Auphonic Recorder iOS app.

Changelog

  • Improved recording interface: remaining disk space, format, etc. is displayed during recording.
  • New recorder options menu: microphone and audio format selection, possibility to force mono recordings with stereo microphones.
  • Usability improvements when importing audio from other iOS apps: we removed confusing/duplicated sharing options and fixed problems while decoding files from other ...

Podcasts are great, but they have a discovery problem – the technology to change that is available.
Today we release a private beta version of automatic speech recognition integrated in Auphonic.

UPDATE:
Please read our new and updated blog post Make Podcasts Searchable (Auphonic Speech To Text Public Beta) !

Automatic Speech Recognition in Auphonic

Since recently, most automatic speech recognition services were really expensive or the quality was very bad. Broadcasting corporations spent big money to generate automatic transcripts to search within audio.
That changed, there are a couple of affordable (even free) services available now, which can ...

When producing a show on a regular basis, it's time consuming to add an intro or outro file to every episode again and again.
With Auphonic you can automate the whole workflow: you create intro/outro files only once and we automatically add it to every new production.

Use Intros/Outros with Presets

You can automatically add an intro and outro to any Auphonic production (see screenshot above), this works for singletrack and multitrack productions.
As intros/outros are intended to be used multiple times, they are only loudness normalized to match the loudness of your production without further Auphonic processing (no leveling, ...

Does anyone need an easy-to-use, free audio editor for the most used operating system in the world? Here is Auphonic Edit , a new audio editor and recorder for Android.

Auphonic Edit is a non-destructive audio editor and recorder with focus on ease of use, high-quality audio and stability. In combination with the integrated Auphonic web service, you can post-process, encode, tag and publish your podcasts, interviews, music recordings on the go with a single click.

View Auphonic Edit in Play Store

Integrated Audio Recorder

The focus of our integrated recorder is robust and high-quality recording:
It is possible to ...

After a very long Apple review time, we are finally allowed to release version 1.0 of the all new, native and free Auphonic Recorder app for iOS:

View Auphonic Recorder in App Store

This app is a co-production with one of the best iOS developers out there: Martin Hering (Vemedio, Instacast, etc.). Many thanks Martin for your great work!


Recording (left) and Waveform (right) view of the Auphonic Recorder iOS app.


The focus of the Auphonic Recorder is robust and high-quality recording:
It is possible to choose between multiple microphones from your iPhone, an external USB interface, headsets, etc. and ...

Once in a while it is necessary to convert big audio or video archives to new formats and metadata conventions, other servers, new loudness targets or apply some audio processing/restoration algorithms.
Now we offer a managed processing of archives to companies and institutions, where we adapt our algorithms and workflows to special requirements of our clients, implement all steps (no need to program the Auphonic API yourself) and perform the whole process on dedicated hardware to speed-up the conversion.

National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

What we can offer

We will adapt the algorithms and workflows ...

Another year is coming to an end: time for Krampus and Nikolaus to rewards the well-behaved ones with gifts – and to fix some remaining bugs from 2015 in our desktop apps :) !
Today we release version 1.7 of the Auphonic Leveler Batch Processor and version 1.3 of the Auphonic Multitrack Processor.

A typical Krampus in Austria, image by Johann Jaritz.

As with all minor releases, these are free updates and everyone is invited to download the latest binaries:

Changelog

This release is mainly a bug fix release.
It fixes ...

We are happy to release version 1.6 of the Auphonic Leveler Batch Processor and version 1.2 of the Auphonic Multitrack Processor with new features and bug fixes for Mac and Windows (see Changelog below).

These are free updates, everyone is invited to download the latest binaries:

Changelog

  • Opus Encoder and Decoder:
    We included an opus encoder and decoder in all apps. Opus is particularly interesting for podcasts due to its suitability for both, music and speech, and its outstanding sound quality at also very low bitrates. For more see Opus, the revolutionary open ...