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📣 lighttower

AI trained to restore audio cassettes?


Has anyone trained a NN to restore audio data that has been degraded with an audio tape? Seems to work great with video [1] but never seen it done with audio. I'm trying to recover the audio of some of the kids songs I had as a kid (on cassettes) so that I can teach them to my kids... but the tapes have degraded terribly over time. Has anyone trained a massive NN to do this?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxd8XJ_J0Gc&feature=youtu.be


  👤 f_allwein Accepted Answer ✓
There are also companies that specialise in restoring and digitising analog media. I had some Super 8 films done by https://mediafix.de/ [German only] and the results were better than expected. They do tapes, but don’t say anything about how they can improve the sound

👤 memexy
This is what I found when I searched for "neural network audio upsampling": https://kuleshov.github.io/audio-super-res/. Here is the search URL if you're interested in looking at the other links: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=neural+network+audio+upsampling&t=....