I tried the Audacity noise-removal plugin recently and it's complete crap. I fed a high-quality audio stream from a Rode mic into a few different options to see which could remove the noise of my server rack. iMovie made the voice sound like a robot and Audacity barely did anything. The only thing that worked was DeepFilterNet and it's free, open-source and cargo installable.<p>There's no reason to lock yourself into an intel-only solution. Just use DeepFilterNet. The results of this on my noisy server room were insanely good. Almost no voice dropout with 100% fan noise removal.<p><a href="https://github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilterNet">https://github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilterNet</a><p>EDIT: Even more interesting, it looks like OpenVino is just DeepFilterNet glued to Whisper.cpp and tied to Intel hardware.<p><a href="https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/tree/main/mod-openvino/noise_suppression/deepfilternet">https://github.com/intel/openvino-plugins-ai-audacity/tree/m...</a>