Audacity

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Here are a few of the most common ways Audacity is used every day:

Podcasters recording and editing spoken content. Audacity is the world’s most popular app for podcasters.
Musicians and bedroom producers, who can edit multiple-parts, mix and add simple effects in an app that’s faster and more intuitive than most DAWs.
Field recorders and educators, who can capture, edit or analyze the sounds of environments, ambience, animals and more.

Cost/Licensing
Audacity is free, open source software.
Supported Platforms

Windows, MacOS, Linux
How to get this tool
Audacity ® | Downloads
Privacy and Security
Audacity ® | Desktop Privacy Policy
AI Features

As an open-source software, Audacity may have any number of AI resources created by 3rd-parties. The Audacity team has curated a list of plugins that they are currently supporting, but more may be developed at any time. These plugins currently can help with things like noise suppression, track separation, music generation, and audio transcription.

Audacity AI Plugins

Windows: Audacity is known to work well with these screen readers: Jaws, NVDA, and on Windows 10, Narrator. There is a Guide to Audacity for users of these screen readers.
- - The following parts of Audacity are not accessible to users of screen readers on Windows:
    - - Amplitude envelope in audio tracks
      - Time Tracks
      - Smart clips - the non-destructive resizing of clips
Mac/Linux: Audacity is currently not usefully accessible on Mac/Linux platforms. Future versions of Audacity hope to be more accessible for these platforms. Check the Audacity Accessibility Page for the latest updates.
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