Sound familiar?
Editing a multi-speaker podcast off a single mixed track is where hours disappear. These are the moments editors know too well:
Guests talk over each other
Two people land on one track and step on each other's lines. You want to duck the interruption or clean one voice, but every edit hits both speakers at once. So you nudge clip gain by hand, fight the crosstalk, and still leave bleed in the final cut.
One loud guest, one quiet host
The levels were mismatched at the source and now they are baked into one waveform. You spend the edit riding faders section by section, drawing volume automation just to keep both voices sitting right — time that should have gone into the actual story.
A remote guest with music or room noise
Someone recorded next to a speaker playing music, or in an echoey room. On a single track you cannot lift their voice out without wrecking everyone else, so you reach for aggressive EQ and noise reduction that leaves the whole episode sounding processed and thin.
No per-speaker control means slow edits
Without isolated tracks there is no clean way to mute, boost, or process one person. You end up splitting the timeline by hand, guessing where each speaker starts and stops — a tedious pass that adds an hour or more to every episode you publish.
How it works
Drop in your episode recording — one mixed file is fine, no multitrack setup required.
SplitBySpeakers detects each host and guest and separates their voices into distinct tracks.
Download a clean, isolated audio file per speaker and drop them straight into your DAW.
How SplitBySpeakers helps
SplitBySpeakers does one job for podcast editors, and does it fast:
One clean track per speaker
Upload the recording and get back Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on — each an isolated audio file. Rename them to your host and guests, drop them onto their own tracks, and edit each voice independently like you recorded them separately.
Crosstalk and bleed, isolated
Because every speaker is on their own track, you can finally duck an interruption, gate one mic, or fix a single voice without touching the others. The overlaps that used to be unfixable become normal, per-track edits.
Strip background music from dialogue
Recorded over music or heavy room tone? SplitBySpeakers separates dialogue from the background so you keep clean speech instead of EQ-ing the life out of the whole mix. Great for field recordings and messy remote setups.
Clean source for any DAW
The exported tracks drop straight into Audition, Logic, Pro Tools, DaVinci Resolve, or Descript. SplitBySpeakers handles the separation step; your editor handles the rest. Nothing to learn, nothing to migrate.
Podcast editing FAQ
What is the best podcast editing software for separating speakers?
Most podcast editors (Descript, Audition, Logic) can label or cut speakers on a timeline, but they do not export an isolated audio file per speaker from a mixed track. SplitBySpeakers is a focused tool that does exactly that, then hands the clean tracks back to your editor of choice.
Can I separate speakers from a single already-recorded track?
Yes — that is the point. Upload one mixed recording and SplitBySpeakers uses AI diarization to split it into one isolated track per speaker, even if everyone was on the same mic or channel.
Does this replace my podcast editor?
No. SplitBySpeakers only handles speaker separation. You still edit, level, and publish in your usual DAW or in Descript — you just start from clean per-speaker tracks instead of one mixed file.
What audio and video formats does it accept?
MP3, WAV, M4A, and common video formats up to 100MB. You can drop in a raw recording or the audio pulled from a video interview.
How many speakers can it separate at once?
SplitBySpeakers handles typical podcast setups of up to five distinct speakers per recording, which covers solo shows, co-hosted episodes, and most guest and panel formats. Each detected voice comes back as its own isolated track, so a four-person roundtable exports as four clean files you can level and edit independently.
Is there a free version?
No — SplitBySpeakers is a paid tool, with plans from $19/mo. Every plan is backed by a money-back guarantee, so you can run your own episode through it and get a refund if it is not right for you.