Adobe Systems has released the public beta of Adobe Soundbooth software, an innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio, and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools.

Soundbooth, designed to deliver high-quality sound to Web and video workflows, enables creative professionals to quickly record, edit, and create pristine audio without any training in sound production. It has been tightly integrated with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Premiere Pro that enables users to easily remove noise from recordings, as also polish voiceovers, plus customize music to fit a production.

With the ability to lay down markers that can be exported as XML and then used with Actionscript in Flash, creating animation cues for use in Flash becomes fast and efficient.

Talking about this development, Jim Guerard, vice president and general manager - dynamic media, Adobe, said, "Adobe Soundbooth is a completely new, highly intuitive audio creation and editing toolset designed to accelerate the integration of sound into video and flash workflows. Our customers asked us to make Soundbooth cross-platform because so many creative shops rely on both Macs and Windows based PCs. We look forward to the feedback from the creative community, as we refine the product over the coming months."

Using Soundbooth, creative professionals can handle customary audio production tasks with ease and efficiency; while Video and interactive Web designers can record new dialog tracks/sound effects/other audio assets, or transform existing audio files with sample-accurate tools that cut, copy, paste, fade, stretch, and add effects.

Soundbooth also provides creative professionals with tools that fix common flaws in audio recordings. Another feature of Soundbooth includes AutoComposer that can be used to speed up the process of creating customized music to accompany projects.

Adobe plans to offer Soundbooth in place of Adobe Audition, as the audio component in its integrated video solution, Adobe Production Studio. Meanwhile, the company will continue developing Adobe Audition as a standalone product for audio professionals working in markets such as broadcast radio.

With the new audio solution, creative professionals can test the beta download available for both Intel-based Macintosh and Windows at http://labs.adobe.com/soundbooth.