Add Spell Check into the platform (with Replace All abilities)
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It's necessary for typos also. I find myself seeing the big blue carat for the video/audio position as a lowercase L and sometimes I end up deleting real text L's that should remain. A spell checker would catch those. The app needs two modes - one for just pure text editing and one for speech to text. That way, we can go through the doc once for the speech and use the AI features and then go through a second time to correct all the spelling. Unless somebody can think of a nice visual way to describe both problems visually
Can't use colors because 10% of the population is color blind. Has to be something that would work on a black and white page.
There is a lot of space left and right of the text and it's not used. Might be nice to have the spelling errors appear like comments on the left and the speech to text AI errors on the right and have both propose the best selections and those suggestions that match left and right have them underlined so the user can pick and know they have the right word for both situations.
Notice also that we have British and English spellings so perhaps include a UK dot next to words that are suggested for British spellings.
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Also, I think the carat in Descript sucks. It should be a ^ style charat instead of obfuscating the view of the text. Just easier to read. And keep the colors to a minimum. The text cursor should be more prominent than the video time/position.
Alexander Lê
Is there legit no spell check on this platform??? My transcripts are a mess and its so manual to fix them. We would be good to spell check on platform before export
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Alexander Lê: Seems we have a topic that wants Grammarly to be integrated. https://feedback.descript.com/feature-requests/p/intergration-with-grammarly
I will say that I use Antidote for English and French and it's very good. Might be good to comment on that thread. It has more votes than spell check only. I think everybody wants the system to handle correcting not just spelling, but also grammar. Since Antidote has more experience than Grammarly and since they support multiple languages and also have a desktop and iphone/ipad app, they may be a better fit for integration with Descript than Grammarly. I put a small note about Antidote on the other thread so it can be evaluated. They make specialized modules for integration with desktop software and perhaps they would be willing to do this work if Descript partners with them and exposes the proper API.
Eric Dickmann
I would agree. Grammarly would be a huge win. When editing, a lot of sentence fragments, commas, missing capitalizations, etc occur and it's difficult to catch and fix them in the tool. It really would benefit from some grammar tools. I would also suggest Descript is a little comma happy. I have to clean up a lot of misplaced and unneeded commas. Finally, it would be great if it had a learning function. For example, it transcribes CMO as CFO every time. I wish there was a way that if a mistake is fixed, it could learn from that error.