CleanGrab lets you remove room echo from a recording online: free, no account, files up to 45 minutes.
Drop the file in and the echo that trails after every word is pulled down, so the voice stops swimming in the room. Doing this by hand means a noise-gate plugin and a learning curve; here it's one upload.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
The cleaned file is the free file. No watermark, no trial length, no account: files up to 45 minutes. A pass adds loudness levelling and a heavier repair pass for rough recordings.
Room echo is a small slice of what actually comes through CleanGrab. In the 31 days to 21 August, 43 recordings were processed sitewide across all of CleanGrab's cleanup tools, and 37 of those, the clear majority, went through the general background-noise remover rather than a page aimed specifically at echo. That matches what we'd expect: most people don't search for "reverb" or "room echo" by name, they just notice a recording still sounds hollow after the fan noise and hum are already gone. We're not going to inflate that 37-of-43 split into a sweeping claim about noisy audio versus echoey audio in general: it's just what came through one small tool's logs in one month, and a reminder that most recordings here have already been through one cleanup pass before this one. It's enough, though, to explain why this page exists as its own thing rather than a setting buried in the main tool.
Room echo is really two things at once, and they are not equally fixable. There is the tail: the sound of the room carrying on after you stop talking, ringing in the gaps between words and after every sentence. And there is the smear: reflections landing on top of the words themselves while you are still speaking, blurring the consonants.
The tail is what your ear labels "echoey", and that is the part this removes. On a test recording made in a hard, empty room, the tail in the pauses came back 14 dB quieter, roughly a quarter of its former loudness, and the natural silences between words were restored to nearly the depth of a recording made in a treated room.
The smear is a much harder problem and this does not fully undo it. A very reverberant recording will come back tighter and far less hollow, but it will not sound like it was recorded in a studio. We would rather say that than promise it.
CleanGrab is tuned for voice and speech, podcasts, interviews, calls, voice memos, lectures. On music or other non-speech audio the result can be poor, and the tool will tell you when it couldn't detect clear speech instead of handing you a mangled file.
The strength control decides how much the model is allowed to pull down. For ordinary background noise, Balanced usually sounds the most natural. Echo is different: it is quieter than the voice and it lives in the gaps, so a gentle setting leaves most of it sitting there. Measured against a dry reference, Strong recovered noticeably more of the natural silence between words than Balanced did, which is why this page starts on Strong.
If the result sounds clipped or the voice starts to sound processed, the main tool on the home page lets you drop back to Balanced or Light and compare the before and after in the browser before you download anything.
If you can still re-record, do this first, because nothing in software beats not recording the echo in the first place:
Already recorded and it is the only take you have? That is what this page is for.
CleanGrab cleans up speech entirely on our own hardware, so there's no per-file fee and no watermark: drop in a recording and get a cleaned voice back as a 192 kbps MP3 plus a lossless WAV. No account, no sign-up, and your upload is deleted the moment it's processed.
If the problem is a steady buzz rather than a hollow room, see removing hum and hiss, or removing fabric rustling noise for clothing and cable noise. For a broader look at cleaning up a muddy recording, see making a voice recording clearer.
Partly, and it is worth knowing which part. The echo tail that rings in the gaps and trails after each word comes down a long way: on our test recording it was 14 dB quieter afterwards. The reverb landing on top of the words while you are still speaking is a harder problem, and no browser tool fully undoes it. Expect a much tighter, less hollow recording, not a studio one.
Yes. No account, no e-mail, no watermark and 10 files a day.
In those you reach for a de-reverb tool and spend time setting it up. Audacity needs a de-reverb plugin, or a Noise Reduction pass built on a steady sample of the room tone; Premiere Pro and Audition use Adobe's DeReverb effect, part of the paid suite; DaVinci Resolve keeps it on the Fairlight page. The quicker route is to run the file through here first, at Strong, and bring the cleaned audio back into the timeline for the video editing. A manual pass is not necessarily more precise, mainly slower.
Strong, which is what this page uses. Echo is quieter than the voice, so the gentler settings leave most of it in place. If the voice starts to sound processed, step back to Balanced on the home page.
Yes. Drop the video in and you get the cleaned audio back; the home page can also hand you the video with its audio replaced.
CleanGrab is tuned for voice and speech: podcasts, interviews, calls, voice memos, lectures. On music or other non-speech audio the result can be poor, and the tool will tell you when it couldn't detect clear speech instead of handing you a mangled file.
Your upload is deleted the moment it's processed and the cleaned file is wiped from the server within 45 minutes. Nothing is shared or used to train anything. See privacy.
Upload the recording here and keep the strength on Strong, the default on this page. It works the same whether the echo comes from a bare room, a video call or a phone recording, and there is no need to trim or convert the file first.
On our own test recording the echo tail came down by about 14 dB, free in the browser with no account. Light to moderate echo comes down well; a very reverberant room is a harder problem no software fully undoes.
Both are handled the same way here: upload the file and CleanGrab reduces the echo automatically. Remove echo from audio after recording is the whole point of this page; short of treating the room itself with soft furnishings, this is the fix for a recording you've already made.
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