I’m running Audacity 3.1.2 on Windows 10 Pro for audiobook narration and this problem has recently cropped up. My raw audio volume is lower with the first utterance of a word following a pause then quickly rises to a ‘normal’ level for the remainder of the sentence. This is happening with every sentence. Help!
The likely culprit is Windows Audio Enhancements. See: Disable Audio Enhancements - Microsoft Support