Which tool to remove voice crackle in audio?

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@Xirix

… I think I may have knocked my microphone and made the USB connection a little loose near the end, because on a couple instances my voice is extremely distorted … It’s a little weird because there seems to be a span of 10 minutes or so where my mic audio is like this, and then it stops for the last 20 minutes or so.

The crackle is due to skipping: intermittently tiny pieces (~1ms) are missing, (audio intermittently interrupted by another process on the computer), this usually causes discontinuity, which is the click/crackle …

@Xirix

… would any of the audacity tools be useful in clearing it up a bit? …

There is a DeClicker plugin for Audacity which will repair the clicks, but it can’t put back the missing parts, so not a cure …