Audacity Features
Learn how to get the most out of Audacity with step-by-step guides for every feature.
- Cut Audio Cut unwanted sections from audio. Remove mistakes, trim silence, or rearrange clips with the Cut command.
- Reverse Audio Reverse audio in one click. Play selections backwards for drops, reverse reverb, backmasking, and sound design.
- Trim Audio Trim audio to keep only the part you want. Crop intros, outros, and silence in one click with Ctrl+T.
- Split Audio Split audio into separate clips at the cursor. Non-destructive — no audio removed, just new clip boundaries.
- Reverb Add natural reverb to vocals, instruments, and podcasts. Room, hall, and cathedral presets included.
- AI Transcription Transcribe speech to text locally with Whisper AI. No uploads, no minute limits, no subscription.
- Delete Audio Delete unwanted sections without touching your clipboard. Remove mistakes, strip intros, and clean recordings.
- Distortion Add distortion, overdrive, fuzz and clipping to guitar, vocals and sound design. 11 distortion types.
- Compressor Compress audio to even out volume levels. Reduce peaks and boost quiet parts for a polished, consistent sound.
- Speed Changer Change the speed of audio while keeping pitch intact, or adjust both together. Simple controls, instant results.
- Pitch Changer Change pitch of audio without affecting speed. Transpose songs to any key, shift by semitones or percent.
- Noise Reduction Remove background noise from audio for free. Eliminate hiss, hum, fan noise, and buzzing from any recording.
- Vocal Remover Remove vocals from any song for free. AI-powered stem separation for karaoke, remixes, and covers. No limits, no subscription.
- Delay Add delay and echo to audio free. Regular, bouncing-ball and reverse delay with pitch change.
- Echo Add rich echo effects to voice, music and sound design with control over delay time and decay.
- Paste Audio Paste clipboard audio at the cursor or over a selection to assemble tracks and build loops.
- Copy Audio Copy selected audio to clipboard without removing it so you can reuse sections and move audio between tracks.