# Plosive reduction

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693>\
**Category:** macOS\
**Created:** [May 29, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693 "2024-05-29T19:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnro43](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/johnro43/32/31674_2.png) [@johnro43](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/johnro43)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693/1 "2024-05-29T19:51:18Z")

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I have a voice-only interview. very soft voice. held mic close to mouth, thus got strong plosives. Not anxious to go one-by-one. Advice as to which effects to use to reduce the big Ps?

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**Author:** ![Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/trebor/32/45854_2.png) [@Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/Trebor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693/2 "2024-05-29T23:04:37Z")

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> [@Help with fixing noise](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/help-with-fixing-noise/50991/2):
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> The good news: plosive thuds can be fixed with a free plugin made for Audacity called [Paul-L’s De-Clicker](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283/1) … [Before-After De-Thud, (Audacity spectrogram).gif] Now the bad news: on the De-Thud settings it takes 10x playback-time to process audio open_mouth e.g. [selecting](https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_selection.html) a ½ second interval , (with the thud in the middle), will take ~5 seconds to remove the thud, ( on my computer, YMMV). If you angle the phone so you’re talking acr…

Nowadays a better & quicker option is via AI …  
[Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio](https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance#) (free)

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**Author:** ![johnro43](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/johnro43/32/31674_2.png) [@johnro43](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/johnro43)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693/3 "2024-05-30T03:10:44Z")

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Great. I’ll try it … thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.audacityteam.org/uploads/default/original/1X/81a69b20bcd548215067cfaceccc8a10bfa2d176.png) [@system](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/plosive-reduction/107693/4 "2024-06-28T19:52:07Z")

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