So it’s not your lecture. It’s the lecture you attended.
Is that the raw recording – the recording from the lecture, or is it the lecture after you applied Noise Reduction?
What were you using to record the lecture? It sounds like you could be using a recorder that’s trying to cancel the background noise like a cellphone and you were too far away.
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Newsies still do this for a reason. It’s really difficult to get good sound from far away.
Whilst the mp3 posted has a sample-rate of 22050Hz the recording only has content up to 4KHz consistent with a sample-rate of only 8000Hz.
Next time use a higher sample-rate on the recording device, e.g. 22050Hz or higher, which makes speech more comprehensible.
[ NB: Using a higher sample-rate will use up more memory per minute ]
But that will only make the sound muffled or AM Radio (5 KHz). There’s compression artifacts in there, too. Bubbling, Honking. So that’s not the only thing wrong.