Here's what's new in version 89 of Descript:

Enterprise Drive Owners and Drive Admins can now place limits on Publishing to prevent Drive members from publishing Public links and restrict whether published projects will appear in search engine results.

These tools are only available to Owners and Admins on and can be found under the Settings menu → Subscriptions → Publish Privacy Options.

The Descript for Web beta has been upgraded with a recorder. This recorder works almost identically to the in-app equivalent with a few limitations. You’ll need to select “Allow” when your Descript asks for permission to use your Microphone and Camera.

This hasn’t changed yet, but we wanted to give you a heads up: Starting in version 90, to simplify some of the interface, we’re removing the Speaker labeling toggle that appears when you use the Speaker label menu to change speakers in a Composition. After v90, changing a label using the speaker menu will always apply until the next Speaker change.

To change the label on a specific selection only, such as a single sentence or paragraph, you can highlight that range and use the ellipses menu […] or the keyboard shortcut Shift+@. We recommend adopting this workflow in advance to get used to it.

This patch resolves an issue with our Web beta program and will not affect most users.

This week's update continues the trend of minimal changes and a focus on bug fixes.

Having a range selection no longer stops playback when the end of the range has been reached. In the past, playback would only play the selected range and then stop automatically.

We’re adding some new tools to Descript Labs. When you select clips from the Canvas, there will be a new drop-down allowing you to apply Layout changes to or For non-script layers, this same option is mirrored on the Project sidebar.

Starting in April, subscriptions and other fees may incur additional charges for sales tax in some US states. See here for specific states, information on adding your tax details to your account, and what to do if you are tax-exempt: Do Descript subscription and transcription fees include taxes?

Descript version 86 is a backend update and a change to how we handle releases internally. It's being released a bit earlier than our normal cycle to facilitate those changes and get some bug fixes in place.

We'll be back to our normal two-week release cadence for v87.

You can now edit or add Speaker Labels to a highlighted section of your script. Just highlight a range of text in the Script and use the keyboard shortcut or click the menu on the Selection toolbar.

Speaking of the Selection Toolbar, we’ve updated it to include a Dropdown menu under the Ignore (strikethrough) icon that includes options to Ignore media, Delete media, Replace with Gap Clip, and Remove from Transcript.

Finally, we made it so that Drive Admins can change the access level of a guest member on a Project. On individual projects, Admins can choose between Can Edit, Can Comment, and Make Owner for their guest member permissions.