NoiseWorks VoiceAssist Standard

All-in-one vocal prep: AI-powered leveling, gate, breath control and de-essing in one ARA workflow.

VoiceAssist Standard is an all-in-one vocal processing plugin that combines intelligent leveling, AI-powered gating, breath control, and de-essing in a single offline-analysis pass. It replaces the typical 4-plugin vocal prep chain (gain rider → gate → de-breather → de-esser) with one unified workflow.

VoiceAssist Standard is the direct successor to DynAssist — existing DynAssist owners receive VoiceAssist Standard as a free upgrade.

Who is this for?

• Mix engineers replacing multi-plugin vocal prep chains (gain rider, gate, de-breather and de-esser)
• Podcast and dialogue editors needing broadcast-ready processing in one step
• Post-production editors (film, TV, corporate video) who need intelligent gating
• Content creators who want professional vocal cleanup without deep audio knowledge
• DynAssist owners upgrading to the VoiceAssist engine

What's included

• Dynamics Section (Leveling)
• Gate Section (AI Voice Detection)
• Breath Section (AI Breath Control)
• Sibilance Section (De-Essing)
• ARA & Transfer Mode

Dynamics

Every word and syllable counts — whether it’s dialogue or vocals.

The Dynamics section analyzes your performance and writes a custom volume automation tailored to your settings.

Want a subtle volume ride no one will notice? Use High Speed mode.

Need aggressive leveling for modern vocals or rap? Switch to Fast Speed for a clear, consistent presence that cuts through.

Work in LUFS-I or LUFS-S, with integrated peak control to trigger compression only when it’s actually needed.

Breaths & sibilance

Harsh sibilance and distracting breaths can make even great performances sound unprofessional.

VoiceAssist gives you intelligent detection with flexible editing:

• Automatically detect breaths and sibilance
• Adjust intensity globally or per section
• Choose volume-based or spectral processing (Sibilance)
• Add, remove, or resize sections freely

Everything stays editable.

The result stays natural, clean, and mix-ready.

Gate

The content-aware Vox Gate only works when it really has to.

Instead of relying on a fixed threshold, VoiceAssist uses intelligent voice and silence detection to avoid over-processing and unnatural cuts — even across comped takes or changing mic positions.

Prefer full control? Switch to a traditional threshold-based mode and fine-tune boundaries to match your recording situation.

Features

• ARA & Transfer Mode: Works in all major DAWs
• Offline Analysis: Processes the entire recording before making adjustments (not real-time)
• Dynamics Section: Intelligent vocal leveling with Speed, Smoothing, Noise Floor, Target Modes, and Catch Peaks.
• Gate Section: AI-powered voice detection gate that distinguishes voice from noise regardless of level
• Breath Section: The most precise AI breath detection available, catching even the quietest breaths while distinguishing between functional and emotionally intended breathing
• Sibilance Section: Integrated de-essing that accounts for leveling changes (no chain-order conflicts)
• Editable Automation: Every adjustment from every module is visible and manually editable

VoiceAssist editions

• Basic: automatic LUFS leveling, editable volume automation, speed, smoothing and peak control; ARA, Transfer Mode and insert.
• Standard: everything in Basic, plus an AI gate for the silence between phrases, automatic breath and sibilance control and editable regions.
• Advanced: everything in Standard, plus de-noise and de-reverb, frequency and bass restoration, de-plosive and resonance reduction, mouth de-click, spectral editing, a standalone app and an iLok option.