User Guide

Welcome to Audio Audit! This section will help you get up and running quickly with our podcast analysis platform.

New to Audio Audit?

Follow our step-by-step guides to master Audio Audit:

1. Quick Start Guide — Get up and running in minutes
2. Account Setup — Configure your profile and preferences
3. Organisations & Teams — Collaborate with your team
   • Roles and Permissions — who can do what
   • Managing Team Members — invites, roles and access
   • Podcast Access and Report Emails — per-show lists and notifications
4. Creating Reports — Analyse podcasts and audio files
5. Understanding Reports — Interpret your analysis results
6. Enhancing Audio — Fix common problems with one-pass audio enhancement
7. Podcast Details — Monitor long-term performance
8. Standards — What a standard is, the built-ins, and creating your own
9. Dashboard Guide — Navigate your control centre
10. Billing & Plans — Manage subscriptions and credits

What is Audio Audit?

Audio Audit is a comprehensive podcast analysis platform that helps you:

• Analyse audio quality — Get detailed technical measurements
• Identify issues — Spot problems before your audience does
• Track improvements — Monitor your podcast's audio quality over time
• Optimise for platforms — Ensure your podcast meets platform requirements

Key Features

Automated Analysis

• Industry-standard technical measurements (LUFS, bit rate, noise floor)
• Content detection (silence, chapters, profanity)
• AI-powered transcription with speaker labels, downloadable as text, SRT or WebVTT
• Visual waveform with issue markers

Quality Scoring

• A Passed/Failed verdict on every report, decided by its standard's Required checks
• An at-a-glance percentage score across every check
• Built-in standards — Podcast, AES speech and EBU R128 — or your own custom standards
• Actionable improvement recommendations

Audio Enhancement

• Noise reduction from a measured noise profile
• Speech compression and loudness normalisation to industry targets
• Clean metadata tags and cover art
• Chapters — generated automatically or edited by hand
• Suggested automatically from your report's failed checks

Team Collaboration

• Organisation workspaces
• Shared credits and reports
• Team member management
• Role-based permissions

Podcast Monitoring

• RSS feed health tracking
• Automatic new episode analysis
• Historical performance graphs
• Uptime and response monitoring

Quick Overview

For Podcasters

1. Connect your podcast RSS feed
2. Get instant quality analysis
3. Track improvements over time
4. Share reports with your team

For Audio Engineers

1. Upload audio files directly
2. Get detailed technical measurements
3. Identify and fix issues
4. Maintain consistent quality

For Organisations

1. Create team workspaces
2. Manage multiple podcasts
3. Share credits across team
4. Centralised billing

Need Help?

• Check our FAQs for common questions
• Message us through the live chat on your dashboard, or email info@audioaudit.io
• Browse our Developer Docs for API access
• Read our blog for tips and best practices