- Audacity
- Podcasting
- AI tools
How to split speakers into separate tracks in Audacity
Put each voice from a one-mic interview or call on its own track: by hand in Audacity 4, or automatically with the Speaker Splitter plugin.
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- Audacity
- Fundamentals
How to use Audacity: a beginner’s guide to Audacity 4
Audacity is a free, open-source audio recorder and editor for Windows, macOS and Linux — not a full DAW. This guide takes a beginner from the download to an exported file in one sitting: getting Audacity 4 through MuseHub, the first launch, the window, a first sound and a first recording, the first cuts, a first effect, cleanup, and save versus export, including sharing to audio.com.
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- Audacity
How to trim and cut audio in Audacity
Trim a clip with its handles, cut or delete a section, choose whether the gap closes, split and join clips, fade the edges and export only what you edited — the Audacity 4 way, with the shortcuts.
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- Audacity
- Podcasting
- Mixing & mastering
How to make audio louder in Audacity: normalize, compress and limit
Which of Audacity’s five volume effects to use and when — Normalize, Amplify, Compressor, Limiter and Loudness Normalization — with the steps for each in the order that works, the loudness targets Apple Podcasts and Spotify publish, the mistakes that turn louder into distorted, and the plugins that go past the built-ins.
12 min read
- Audacity
- Mixing & mastering
Best Audacity plugins in 2026
Twelve Audacity plugins, free and paid, ranked on what they do for a podcast or a track — EQ, reverb, pitch correction, noise removal and voice tools — with the format of every pick and whether it loads in Audacity 4.
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