Posts tagged "Audio"

Unfucking audio with "AI"

Thursday February 20 2025, 1434 words — Using machine learning to unfuck broken audio recordings.
Filed under: Software, Machine Learning, Audio

Ok, I fucking hate “AI” and the corporate horse it rode in on. Machine learning though? I guess that’s kinda useful?!

I’ve been helping out my friends at KKTO with their project Minute/Year for almost a decade now and a while ago we had run into a peculiar problem. I spent the last few days finally cleaning up the mess it caused and I thought I’d write up what I’ve done cause I’m pretty proud of the result.

In 2023 an audio interface had failed and corrupted a whole bunch of our daily recordings in a subtle yet annoying way. It took us a few days to realize what had happened at which point we power cycled the audio interface and everything went back to normal but it left us with a bunch of corrupted recordings that needed to be fixed.

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