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Exclude silence from "Shorten Word Gaps"
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Bryan Schiele
If there's laughter or unknown words after transcription, the Shorten Word Gaps feature wants to remove those sections, leaving a choppy edit if you wanted to select "Apply to all". For example, in this screenshot, the name "I-17" (a road here in Arizona) isn't recognized and would be cut if I used the "Apply to All" option.
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Belief Hole Podcast
Just to chime in - this is my #1 hope for Descript. I was so excited for this feature, but the "Shorten Word Gap" feature is essentially useless for me. Almost every sentence is chopped at the beginning or end because the words are grey (not transcribed). This is often if two people are talking or laughing, which is frequently in our podcast (lots of laughs) and you don't want to lose that! :)
I would love to simply have an option to protect this audio from getting chopped when using Shorten Word Gap, or have a threshold setting as some have mentioned. With a 1-2 hour long podcast, this would save tons of time. But using this tool as it is actually adds time due to the constant need to restore the audio bits.
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Garret Kruger
This is also #1 on my list of requested improvements. Our podcast is very jargon-heavy so Descript often doesn't understand the words (or parts of the words) and ultimately removes them during the shorten word gaps operation.
Brian Holmes
This absolutely needs to happen. The feature is fantastic, but essentially unusable because of this. Should be a top priority for the next release.
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Belief Hole Podcast
Brian Holmes: My words exactly! It's just too destructive to be useful. If only there was an option to have Descript exclude any visible audio from being cut during the operation. Protect the gray waves, regardless of if it was able to transcribe it.
Katrina Lui
Merged in a post:
Use the audio, not the transcription, for long-pause removal
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David Etler
When removing long pauses, it seems Descript interprets a pause as anything the AI doesn't understand as speech. This can remove laughter, human-intelligible overtalking, and other useful audio. Adding an option to use the audio only in detecting pauses (as Adobe Audition does it, by finding sections that are below a user-adjustable threshold of volume) would be useful.
Propane Hangout Recordings
Rather than excluding untranscribed waveforms - the better solution is allowing the user to exclude certain gaps before clicking 'remove all'.
Some silence is left in for dramatic effect for example, or parts of a video that needs to be left in, but where there is no speech.
Andrew Mason
Merged in a post:
Don't treat non-transcribed waveforms as silence
Podcast Advocate
I often have sections of audio where the transcription doesn't add text and get gray waveforms, and if I use the Shorten Silence feature, these sections get clipped, horribly.
This cut makes no sense. Send up a flag or alert to manually review these section, to either transcribe myself, or delete, or something else.
Andrew Mason
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Scott
We've used the Audacity feature to automatically strip out silent sections. It's pretty quick and handy. It might be an good example to copy from.
Devora Nickolovska
Please make this feature!! I use Descript to edit my podcast and use the multitrack sequence but then have to go through and delete the silences while the other person is talking. Being able to automate this process and automatically find batches of silences and delete them would be a game-changer. Thanks!
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