How to remove "echo" in Audacity?

[alexscampbell]

A friend and I recently recorded a podcast. This is something we're both new to so it's been a bit of a process.

Basically I'm editing both audio tracks in Audacity. However, during recording both of our mics slightly picked up the other person, so there's a sort of echo effect when listening to the raw audio tracks together.

I was wondering if there was a simple way to reduce the unwanted background voice on each track. I can elaborate more if needed. I may be missing the correct terminology.

 

[nandini02]

To remove "echo" in audacity you must try these following steps:

1. Select the “silent” section of your audio, where it's just noise.
2. Go to the Effects menu and click Noise Removal.
3. Click Get Noise Profile.
4. Select all of the audio from which you want that background noise removed.