Resound reviews

Hey Resound,thank you so much!!!

I was in a jam and needed to do a recording for a book I wrote, and needed a tool the take out the uhms and ahas and dead space. Well, I purchased resound, but never used it until yesterday October 13, 2024, and it is awesome 😎 👍 I took and almost two hour recording and dwindle it down to 1 hour 24 minutes. It processed pretty fast, I am pleased. I cannot attest to the other reviews that are saying resound went downhill with that May update, and they probably do more complex editing than me, so I hope resound happily takes their feedback as a challenge to make their tool even better because I would like to purchase tier 3 if they decide to come back to AppSumo one last time 😊 hopefully they stay a little longer so everyone can catch the best deal in town. I did use this tool in conjunction with Xound first before using resound to edit, what a powerhouse combo!

When this deal was launched it was a pretty good way to clean audio. Not as good as Adobe Podcast (which has gotten even worse) or Auphonic (which is MILES better) but enough to hold its own. I even wrote about it on LinkedIn.

I tested its capabilities before committing to a Tier 3 purchase. Then, sometime around May 2024, they rolled out an update that has pretty much made the tool unusable. Now, you need to subscribe to some add-ons or change to subscription billing to get the same functionality that you were getting before the update.

Classic bait and switch.

Shame, because Resonate (the parent company) actually seems to be a decent production house. Not gonna trust anything from Resound or Resonate from here on...

The tool seems to lower the sound in areas where it's not necessary, creating an unbalanced audio experience. There's no way to make targeted adjustments to specific parts of the audio. End result worsen than my original recording, even after applying various filters, the results were subpar. The processed audio often sounds artificial and unnatural, which is a significant drawback.

Resound does exactly what it says on the box. It eliminates 'uuummms' and long silences. It's super easy to use. And it even cleans up your audio. Happy to recommend.

What has irked me is the change to the Enhance AI part of the plan. You had one setting in the Creator Plan that produced a warm and resonant tone in the audio.

They've since "improved" the plan to have four Enhance AI settings:
High and crisp, Low and crisp (now included in the creator plan which was their AppSumo offering), and also High and Warm, and Low and Warm.

Crisp included, warm taken away. And in audio, warm is good as crisp can be tinny and tunnel like. Now you have to upgrade to use warm when it was the default.

If they wanted to limit AppSumo users to two out of the new four EnhanceAI plans, they could... I guess, but why not let the users decide which of the four options they wanted? Seems to me, they wanted to bork the quality and force an upgrade.

I contacted the CEO, but it seemed like they couldn't help much besides mentioning some slider controls that weren't very helpful. The exported audio had clipping that was not in the previous version of Resound. The pre-May version was great. The newest version is absolutely terrible, and the push to upgrade to the previously offered warmer tone seems like a blatant marketing tactic. An update to address this was promised/suggested in the first week of July. Nothing.

The editor has been improved, but there are still some strange results, so you have to check the audio results manually. I've just started using Auphonic and Audacity again. Disappointing.

If Resound allows users on the creator plan to choose warm tones or confirm their preferred tones, there could be a chance for improvement.

One, I think it is not fit for Hindi language podcasts. It recognised some words being spoken as suggested removable sounds on a consistent basis. So, i assume it cant recognize them as proper hindi words. In fact, they were proper hindi words. I cant say that this app is completely useless for hindi podcasters, but i hope it will get better down the line.

Two, Enahance audio feature seems really good. (Felt like cherry on the cake) It could remove vehicle sounds from nearby traffic, Room's AC humming sound. However, it can do even better if it can remove click sounds, muffles and ruffles nearby. Even if it identifies them as suggested removable sounds, we can review it and choose to keep or delete.

Three, Coudn't see any option to remove some portion of the clip manually. There were long silences in the audio which I was editing and wanted to remove those parts, but cud not see any option to remove the portion i did not want. And the algorithm could not recognise the long silences or gaps, where some silences were almost 2 seconds or more.

Four, the method to play relevant part where suggested removable part is there, seemed very innovative. However, give us key board shortcuts to play, keep or delete. As these three things are going to be used almost all the time while using this app. So, if you provide three shortcuts to users, i think it will cover 80% of their usage in the app.

Five, Couldn't edit the file name after it is imported in the editor studio.

Six, Export happens in Zip file, Why? Why it can't be just mp3/aac/wav directly

Seven, I think it doesnt have any option to create a folder structure to arrange files. However, it can be ignored if you are given only 15 days of file storage

Suggestions - The data should be trainable. We should be able to feed some portion of the clip to train the model to recognise them as removable sounds. Based on the feed, it should recognise similar sounds in the audio. This should be easy to incorporate in the code, i think.

I bought this months ago and I am never going back. I am so glad I bought the highest-tier as well, as I now am able to edit batches of Podcast audio in what feels like half the time. For anyone else who has been editing Podcasts and practically memorized the waveform for what an "umm" or clicking sound looks like in order to wipe it out of the podcast for easier listening, this is certainly for you!
One obvious downside that is impossible to navigate though; should you have more than a 1-person podcast/form of audio, know that you'll need to preview the audio where voices overlap on top of each other, as the programming can't separate a joined audio file. And putting in all audio channels doesn't seem to be as fluid a transition as someone as hyper-focused on quality such as myself would prefer.

I used to hate editing the episodes for my podcast using Audacity, because it would take forever to listen through the entire thing to identify the filler words and delete them. This made it a breeze! I was able to visually see them and quickly review and edit the most recent episode. Highly recommend! This is definitely one of better purchases I've made on Appsumo!

This tool is awesome and saves me a ton of time in removing silences and filler words. I can't wait till they add the ability to set the auto silence threshold duration so that I can remove silences even faster. This was a great buy for me

Well, the Resound app is probably one of the best purchases I made on Appsumo... but only until May of this year. Here's the story.

I bought Tier-3 when they were here last year, and I couldn't be happier. For my use case, which involves enhancing and removing filler sounds from webinars that can last from 45 minutes to 2 hours, Resound gives a magnificent output. I always recommend this app to my network, calling it an excellent tool for enhancing video and sound.

However, something happened in May when they made an upgrade. Initially, I thought it was fine because that's how a tool can remain sustainable. The sad part is that they removed a feature from us sumolings: There used to be one AI filter (and it was so WARM) but by May, it increased to four, with two only available for subscription-based users.

If this was a new feature, I wouldn’t mind. The problem is they took away something users previously enjoyed. Since May, the quality of the enhanced sound has diminished, and it’s noticeable to my audience. I can tell from the output which lost its "warmness".

It’s very disappointing because, as a believer from the initial campaign, it feels like something is being taken away from you. While this remains a good tool, be careful because the quality has dropped since the initial purchase.

I hope this is just an isolated case due to my strict sound expectation.

While the audio quality is great, don't count on it for a video export. It took almost 5 hours to export a 1 hour video and the quality is so bad that it is unusable. Don't get me wrong the audio export is amazing, but the video is not ready for primetime.

The only AI filter I liked (High/Warm) is one of the 2 not included in the LTD plans. The crisp ones don't sound good imo (like you're talking down a tunnel), and the slider options didn't seem to do anything at all so all I'd really use this for is um and ah removal (which is nice, I really like that feature). I would consider a roadmap purchase but since all the plans say Filler Sound Detection V 1.0.0, I'm not sure what, if any, new features we would have access to. Pretty bummed. Might refund.