how to get rid of someone clearing their throat from audio

[Joseph W. bourke]

How successfully you can do this depends on whether the throat clearing is stepping on the other person’s audio, and whether there’s an example of the throat clearing which is clean, with no other audio going on. If you can get a clean sample of the throat clearing, you may be able to do a sample, and then remove the sampled audio from the rest of the clip (if the clearing is pretty identical across the board. At any rate, this link will get you all you need to know to remove the noise, whether or not you can get a clean sample:

https://helpx.adobe.com/audition/using/noise-reduction-restoration-effects.html

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Simon Billington]

If the through the clearing is in between useful audio, you can usually cut out the offensive audio or use level key framing to drop the volume in the appropriate place.

Trouble is that can leave dead space within the audio, so you may need some “room tone” to place in the gap to eliminate that sudden drop out.

If the offending noises are underneath your dialogue or useful audio, it gets a lot trickier to remove. It’s possible to achieve a decent job in Auditiion, but for more tricky stuff requires something a bit more advanced like iZotope RX Audio Editor.