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AI in Professional Audio Post-Production

This page maps where AI tools sit in film, television and broadcast audio post-production, the stage after shooting where dialogue, music and effects are repaired, edited and mixed. It is for dialogue editors, mixers and broadcast engineers who already know the craft and want to know what changed. By the end you will know which job each tool does, which makers' claims we checked against their own pages, and which were unreachable. Reviewed 2026-10-08.

A 1960s mid-century comic book style editorial illustration showing a cinema dubbing stage from the back, with empty tiered seats, a large screen showing a mountain landscape, and two people at a long mixing console adjusting faders and reading a clipboard.

What is different about professional use

Creator tools are judged on one result. Professional tools sit inside a chain of people and contracts, so four questions decide whether a tool is usable. This strand is for: Dialogue editors, re-recording mixers, localisation and broadcast engineers.

Does it run in real time or offline?

A dubbing stage needs sound processed as it plays. A dialogue edit prefers a render you hear and revise. The makers describe both, and one tool often offers only one.

Does it work inside the workstation you use?

A plug-in format such as AAX, VST3 or AU decides whether a tool loads in Pro Tools, Nuendo or Reaper. Each guide names the formats the maker states.

Is the result steady across a whole reel?

A tool that sounds right on one line and different on the next fails in the cut. None of the makers' pages we read reports a result across a feature, so this is a test you run yourself.

Does the delivery specification and the performer consent allow it?

A buyer might refuse estimated stems or an upmix, and voice reconstruction raises consent questions. Our guide to the union's summary of the tentative 2026 TV/Theatrical agreement covers consent for replicas, and it is not the final contract.

Guides in this strand

AI Dialogue Cleanup in Post: Where It Sits in the Chain
Where AI dialogue tools sit between the dialogue edit and the mix, and how to keep a reel consistent.
Experimental. Not tested by us.
Splitting a Finished Mix into Dialogue, Music and Effects with AI
What DME separation does, what two tools state, and the checks before stems go into a delivery.
Experimental. Not tested by us.
Upmixing Stereo to Surround and Immersive: What Halo Upmix States
What a stereo upmix does, what NUGEN states about Halo Upmix, and how to check the downmix.
Experimental. Not tested by us.
Transcription Inside Pro Tools: What the 2026.4 Speech-to-Text Update Does
What the Pro Tools 2026.4 Speech-to-Text update does, from trade coverage, and what to check first.
Experimental. Not tested by us.

Tools, with what the makers state

Every tool on this page is listed as not tested by us. Several are sold by contract or as hardware, and we do not contact vendors for demonstrations. The statements below come from the maker's own page where the last column shows a date. The creator-level tools and a wider table are on the AI Tools for Creative Work hub.

Tools in this strand
Tool	Tier	Where it runs	Formats and platforms	Checked against maker
CEDAR DNS (contract product) Page announces DNS 8S for live sound and broadcast where audio over IP is not required, and lists DNS One as a plug-in. It does not say whether DNS products use machine learning. That claim comes from a trade source on DNS 4.	Studio	Runs on your computer	Not checked	2026-10-08
Waves Clarity Vx Pro Page says real-time voice noise reduction powered by Waves Neural Networks. Platforms and formats were not in the part of the page we read.	Pro	Not checked	Not checked	2026-10-08
Accentize dxRevive Pro Page says all processing happens locally without sending data to the cloud. It restores noisy, clipped, reverberant and band-limited speech using neural networks.	Pro	Runs on your computer	Mac (Apple Silicon recommended) and Windows. VST3, AU and AAX. No special hardware needed, per the page.	2026-10-08
Antinode Clear (formerly Supertone Clear) Now made by Antinode Audio. Three controls: voice, ambience and voice reverb. Real-time processing is listed. Where processing happens is not stated.	Pro	Not checked	Windows 10 or later (64-bit) and macOS 10.13 or later, with Apple Silicon support. AU, VST3, VST and AAX.	2026-10-08
iZotope RX Page lists RX 12 with Dialogue Isolate using neural nets in offline and real-time modes. MusicTech (2 July 2026) reports iZotope was acquired by Boris FX, licences stay active and development continues. No exact sale date was given. Platforms not stated on the product page.	Pro	Runs on your computer	Not checked	2026-10-08
AudioShake (contract product) Its dialogue, music and effects page lists dialogue, music and effects stems and says clean dialogue improves transcription and captioning accuracy. It says dubbing services use the technology, and does not mention M&E tracks or recovering lost stems. Access is a browser tool, a REST API and SDKs. Customer logos and accuracy figures are the vendor's own claims and were not checked.	Studio	Cloud, upload required	Not checked	2026-10-08
Steinberg SpectraLayers Steinberg's SpectraLayers 12 help page documents Unmix Soundtrack, which unmixes the selected layer into dialogue, effects and music, with Balanced, High and Best quality settings that trade time for quality. The page says it suits audio from trailers, movies, television and radio shows. It states no limitations and does not say which edition includes it.	Pro	Runs on your computer	Not checked	2026-10-08
NUGEN Halo Upmix Page lists upmix to LCR, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1, switchable "neural network powered dialog isolation" for the centre channel, an exact mode for downmix compatibility, and an optional 3D extension for Atmos bed (7.1.2), Auro 3D (7.1.4) and Ambisonic output. The page does not say where processing runs.	Pro	Runs on your computer	AAX, VST3, AU and AudioSuite, 64-bit. The optional 3D extension supports Pro Tools (AAX) and Nuendo (VST3) on Windows and macOS.	2026-10-08
Avid Pro Tools Speech-to-Text Per ProSoundWeb (30 April 2026), the 2026.4 release enhances Speech-to-Text: select clips by word, sentence or speaker, show transcription lanes per track, carry transcription data through AudioSuite, Commit, Consolidate and .ptxm export, and choose CPU or GPU for analysis. Available to Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate. Languages not stated. Avid's own page was unreachable.	Pro	Not checked	Not checked	Not yet

Not yet checked

These are known to belong in this strand and are missing from it:

Audionamix and Hush, whose pages returned nothing current
Zynaptiq, Sonnox and Klevgrand, known names we did not check
DaVinci Resolve Fairlight voice isolation and transcription
The full 2026 union contract and agreements outside the SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical summary, which we have not read

Consent, labelling and rights

Voice reconstruction and visual dubbing touch a performer's voice or face, and delivery contracts decide which repairs a buyer accepts. Read AI Voice Cloning: Consent, Contracts, and Disclosure and When to Label Content as AI-Made: Platform Rules and Audience Trust first. The union's own summary of its tentative 2026 TV/Theatrical agreement is covered in Digital Replicas and Synthetics. We have not read the full contract or the European Union labelling rules in their primary form, so this strand does not summarise them beyond that guide.

Sources

Checked 2026-10-08. We opened the maker's own page for 8 of 9 tools on this strand. We tested none of them. We record no prices, so each tier is our estimate.

CEDAR DNS. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
Waves Clarity Vx Pro. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
Accentize dxRevive Pro. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
Antinode Clear (formerly Supertone Clear). The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
iZotope RX. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
AudioShake. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
Steinberg SpectraLayers. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.
NUGEN Halo Upmix. The maker's own page, read on 2026-10-08.

These tools are described from trade coverage because the maker's page was unreachable or did not describe the product: Avid Pro Tools Speech-to-Text. Their rows say "Not yet" under "Checked against maker", and each guide names the trade source it used.