

The only 'legitimate' use of what's actually called de-breathing is in commercials, apparently to stop listeners being even slightly distracted from a short commercial message, but that's it - nowhere else is it appropriate. I don't know why they bothered mentioning outtakes - who'd submit those? Breathing, though, is a part of the natural delivery of the artist, and is an essential component of a good read. Excessive mouth noise shouldn't be there either, and that's an issue for your talent to deal with - but that's not breathing. Plosives and mic pops - yes, they shouldn't be there. Nowhere does it mention removing natural breathing sounds.

'Each uploaded file must be free of extraneous sounds such as plosives, mic pops, mouse clicks, excessive mouth noise, and outtakes.' NOTE: Audacity only opens some audio formats ( WAV, MP3, AIFF ). Step 3: Now, Select the Audio file that you want to remove the unwanted background noise. Step 2: Next, click on the File from the menu bar and select Open ( Cltr+O). But hey, let's take what ACX have to say about it: If you don’t have the Audacity Software, Click on the link below to download. Also there's some academic research that indicates an actual preference for breath sounds, although the authors want to do some more research on that.

If you do a search relating to whether people prefer natural-sounding speech or having it processed for no breathing, I can't find a single reference to anybody prefering the lack of breath sounds at all, and a lot of references to people saying that you shouldn't do that to speech.
