AUDIO CHECK BEFORE YOU PUBLISH (from the Stepthrough Auphonic lesson)
Auphonic does the cleanup. Your ears do the sign-off. Listen to the whole file once, in headphones.

What to check                    What you should hear
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1  The start                     Free productions get a short jingle added at the start. Is that
                                 OK for where you are posting? Paid credits remove it.
2  Speaker balance               The quiet speaker and the loud speaker are about the same volume.
3  Background noise              The hiss or hum is gone. Voices should not sound watery or robotic.
4  Pauses and breaths            Silences are quiet, not pumping up and down.
5  Names and numbers             Clients, product names and prices are clear and not clipped.
6  Consent                       Everyone in the recording agreed to be recorded and to the file
                                 being processed online. Never upload anyone else's recording
                                 without that.

Settings used in the lesson (Auphonic defaults, 15 Oct 2026):
  Noise Reduction        Dynamic Denoiser, Remove Noise 100 dB (full)
  Adaptive Leveler       Default Leveler, strength 100% (Default), compressor Auto
  Loudness Normalization -16 LUFS (Podcasts and Mobile)
  Speech Recognition     Needs paid credits; not used