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Filler Words - Don't ignore/remove unless they can be cleanly removed
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Kate McCready
It would also be helpful to be able to remove the filler words from the transcript, but not the audio. I actually don't mind filler words in my podcast audio as it's how we all speak and sometimes removing them creates more editing than it's worth. But I really need them out of the transcript as this makes the transcript messy.
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Jon McLaren
100% this, it would be reallly really appreciated if we could at least restore the individual removed filler audio if it made a mistake.
The remove all filler words feature is like nuking your entire video because in the spots where it doesn't work It's bad. The only way to get back to being productive is to start over and not use the feature.
Murray Robinson
Jon McLaren: You can easily find and restore automatically removed words by selecting the word before and after the cut and right click, restore removed media
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Jon McLaren
Murray Robinson: good to know thank you for this tip!
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Jon McLaren
Murray Robinson: I've found this only works like 1% of the time, the rest of the time right clicking this option doesn't let you restore the audio.
Murray Robinson
Jon McLaren: I have found that it works 99% of the time so you must be doing it wrong
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Jon McLaren
Murray Robinson: when you right click after selecting the text and the menu item is grayed out and unclickable, that's a bug.
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David Fulton
Also, removing filler words that are adjacent to a marker will delete the marker. That seems like a bug. If I placed the marker and I wanted to remove the filler word, why is the marker tied to the filler word?
Gretchen Miller
Yes please. And if there is an associated breath, let's keep that breath as much of my labour involves returning the breath to keep the flow and rhythm natural (much better than automatically replacing the um with AI generated atmos)
Jason Dinkel
Gretchen Miller: Any thoughts on how to remove filler words without affecting the video? I'd sort of like to see the audio go silent/background noise and keep the video because in some cases it's hard to tell from the frame at the start to the frame at the end if anything has moved. Some slides are static and it's easy, but in other presentations, you have important information on the video and you need to keep it intact while just removing the jibber jabber of the people talking.
Murray Robinson
Gretchen Miller: I want all the breaths removed from edit
Gretchen Miller
Murray Robinson: depends on your useage. What the content is for. I like to keep the human expression in mine. Removing breaths can be stressful for the listener, as they use breaths as a means to process the content, and connect to the human delivering the words. My work is about lived experience, big ideas etc.
Murray Robinson
Gretchen Miller: sounds like a very personal preference to me
Gretchen Miller
Murray Robinson: comes from 20 years in broadcasting, and a PhD in podcasting - so, no, it's more of a genre preference than a personal one.
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Tom Solid
The same issue is with the Word Gap removal. They way Descript allows to go through the proposals is not helpful to be more effecient in editing the audio. Here an example what I mean https://www.loom.com/share/6d2a93de1816465d93e8d0ea05ddc0cd
Jason Dinkel
Tom Solid: Great points in this video.
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Tanina Cadwell
It'd be great if we had the option to just ignore/remove the filler words from the transcript, but keep them in the video.
Charlie Harding
I never use this feature because it is unreliable due to poor splice points that interrupt audio
ankur delight
This would radically affect my workflow. I have to manually check each filler-word suggestion for my podcast to avoid the harsh cuts. And if I can tell by looking at the waveform, I know Descript can too ;)
Gretchen Miller
ankur delight: yes!
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Colin Keeley
yes please!
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