# Clean Voice from Any Recording, in Seconds

> Clean up recordings with AI audio cleanup — isolate voice, remove background noise, and separate stems. Plus mixing, trimming, and speed tools. Start free.

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Not every take happens in a treated booth. VO gets recorded in home offices, reference audio arrives with music baked in, and the best read of the session has an air conditioner humming underneath it. Traditionally the choice is bad: ship compromised audio, spend hours in restoration software, or re-record and hope the performance survives.

Layer's Audio Cleanup gives you three AI tools for rescuing recordings. Isolate Audio strips background noise and music, leaving clean voice. Remove Noise suppresses background noise while keeping the recording's character. Separate Audio splits out a target sound and its residual — full stem separation. Alongside them, deterministic mixing, trimming, volume, and speed tools handle the everyday edits, so cleanup and prep happen in one place.

## Key Capabilities

**Isolate Audio**
Strip background noise and music from a recording, leaving clean, usable voice. The tool for turning a noisy location take or music-backed reference into dialogue you can actually work with.

**Remove Noise**
Suppress background noise — hum, hiss, room tone — while preserving the recording itself. The lighter touch for takes that are almost clean.

**Separate Audio**
Split out a target sound and its residual from a mixed recording. Stem separation lets you extract the element you need or remove the one you don't.

**Deterministic Editing Tools**
Mixing, trimming, volume, and speed adjustments run as predictable, repeatable operations — the routine edits of audio prep without leaving the platform.

**One Audio Workspace**
Cleanup lives alongside Layer's full audio toolkit, powered by leading models including ElevenLabs, so cleaned audio flows straight into voice conversion, cloning, and delivery.

## How It Works

**Upload the recording**
Bring in the audio that needs work — a VO take, a location capture, or a mixed track with an element you need to pull out.

**Pick the right tool**
Choose Isolate Audio for clean voice extraction, Remove Noise for background suppression, or Separate Audio for stem separation. Apply trims, volume, mixing, or speed changes as needed.

**Export clean audio**
Review the result, iterate if needed, and export — or feed the cleaned audio directly into Layer's other audio features.

## Built for Game Production

**VO Pipelines**
Salvage strong performances recorded in imperfect conditions — remote actor home setups, on-site captures, archival takes — instead of scheduling costly re-records.

**Voice Cloning Prep**
Clean source audio makes better custom voices. Isolate voice from noisy or music-backed samples before training with Layer's Voice Cloning via Reference Sets.

**Live-Ops Turnaround**
When event audio arrives late and rough, cleanup in minutes keeps content on schedule — noise out, levels set, trimmed, and shipped the same day.

**Reference and Legacy Audio**
Pull usable dialogue or a specific sound out of mixed reference tracks and older assets with stem separation, giving past material new production value.

Trusted by 300+ game studios and entertainment brands including Zynga, SciPlay, Huuuge Games, and Machine Zone, Layer makes every recording a usable one.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What tools are included in Audio Cleanup?

Three AI tools — Isolate Audio strips background noise and music leaving clean voice, Remove Noise suppresses background noise, and Separate Audio splits out a target sound and its residual. Deterministic mixing, trimming, volume, and speed tools round out the set.

### What's the difference between Isolate Audio and Remove Noise?

Isolate Audio extracts clean voice by stripping everything else, including music. Remove Noise keeps the recording intact while suppressing background noise — use it when you want the original character with less hiss and hum.

### What is Separate Audio used for?

Separate Audio is stem separation — it splits out a target sound from a recording along with the residual, so you can extract or remove a specific element like dialogue from a mixed track.

### Can I edit audio on Layer too?

Yes. Alongside the AI cleanup tools, Layer includes deterministic mixing, trimming, volume, and speed tools, so routine edits happen in the same place as cleanup.

### What does audio cleanup cost on Layer?

Layer uses consumption-based Creative Units with no seat fees. Plans start at $10/month for 300 CUs with 10% rollover, and you can start free without a credit card.

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Rescue that recording instead of re-recording it. Clean up your first audio file free on Layer — no credit card required.

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