Noise cancellation in voice recordings - please help

[Aristea]

Hello,

I recorded recently an interview for my work in a wav file but unfortunately there is a lot of background noise and it's very difficult to transcribe it. Strangely there was no noise in the room and I fear that this was down to me pressing a wrong button in the Sony digital voice recorder (it worked fine in the subsequent interviews).
I downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 for Windows but cannot figure out whether it is possible to reduce the noise.

I would be really extremely grateful if you let me know whether I can do something with Audacity to save the interview as it is very important to my work. Any suggestion, advice would be very welcome.

many thanks!

[kozikowski]

Fortunately, there is a tutorial written to address this.

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... -recorders

We do warn people that the noise reduction in Audacity 1.3 is enormously better than the one in 1.2.

Koz