Audacity

Final projects can be exported to multiple formats, including MP3 (suitable for podcasts), WAV (high-quality audio), and FLAC. Key Considerations for Long Recordings (Podcasts/Lectures)

Audacity includes a "Change Tempo" tool, which allows stretching or shrinking the length of an audio clip without altering its pitch, and "Change Speed" for altering both. Audacity

Key effects include Noise Reduction (to remove background noise), DeEsser/DeClicker (plugins for cleaning speech), compression, equalization (EQ), and normalization to even out volume levels. Final projects can be exported to multiple formats,