Jivetalking 🕺

Jivetalking is your audio-engineer-in-a-box. Turn raw microphone recordings into broadcast quality audio with a single command. It’s a free and open source tool from the Linux Matters team.

Jivetalking screenshot, showing a file being processed

First discussed on Linux Matters 74, Jivetalking analyses each audio track and applies bespoke processing. Your files emerge at -18 LUFS, the podcast/broadcast standard, with room rumble, background hiss, clicks, and harsh sibilance sorted automatically.

Install

Jivetalking is a single executable, no dependencies required.

Download the latest release for your platform from the GitHub releases page.

Run

Run jivetalking from your terminal, and pass it your raw FLAC files. You can pass multiple files at once, and they will be processed in a queue.

jivetalking presenter-1.flac presenter-2.flac

Files will be written as presenter-1-processed.flac, presenter-2-processed.flac, etc.

How does it work?

Full technical details and other options can be found in the README on GitHub.