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Cleanvoice AI

Solo-founder AI tool that strips filler words, mouth sounds, and background noise from podcast and video recordings automatically.

Cleanvoice was started in 2021 by Adrian Spataru, a podcaster who got frustrated manually cutting 'ums,' stutters, and long silences out of his own episodes and built a tool to automate it. The company has stayed a small, largely solo-run operation based in Bucharest, Romania, rather than raising venture funding, and has grown mainly through podcaster word-of-mouth and an API used by other podcast tools. The product uses machine learning to detect and remove filler words, mouth sounds, breaths, and dead air from spoken audio and video, working across 40+ languages while trying to leave natural-sounding room tone rather than jarring hard cuts. Beyond the core cleanup, it also offers transcription, summarization, and multitrack editing for recordings with multiple guests, plus a timeline export for anyone who wants to make manual tweaks afterward in a DAW. By its own numbers Cleanvoice has processed audio for more than 15,000 podcasters and licenses its API to dozens of other audio and podcast platforms, positioning it as an infrastructure layer for cleanup rather than a full editing suite competing directly with Descript.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Bucharest, Romania

Sector

applications