Filler Words - Don't ignore/remove unless they can be cleanly removed
under consideration
Belief Hole Podcast
This has 400 more upvotes than an other feature requests on the roadmap and still just Under Consideration. I'm genuinely curious why this Descript has so much difficulty with this when im pretty sure other text-based editing apps can do this.
Also goes for the "Trim & Remove Silences" tool. Why can't Descript AI identify laughter? If you want to keep host/guests laughter, it kind of makes the "Trim & Remove Silences" tool useless.
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Bill Alderson
Totally agree I would rather have a filler word kept than an abrupt removal. a smoothing video algorithm would be super cool... now that is REAL AI.
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Emily Breitbach
Yes! Or allow us to "preview listen" the edits before they are cut to make sure they're a clean cut
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Support Team
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Support Team
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Fill Gap With Same Length Audio And Optimize Edit Boundaries Are At Odds
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David T. Cole
The option to replace a filler word with an audio gap of the exact same length is completely undone by the automatic "optimizing edit boundaries" which AFAIK is not something you can undo or toggle off. Removing filler words with gaps on a 53m audio file yielded at 50m audio file.
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Support Team
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Preceding words determine if filler or not
Propane
For example, the word 'right' usually is a filler word, but if it's preceded by 'top', or perhaps 'the' or 'left', then it's likely meant in the directional sense, rather than as a filler. I wonder if it's possible for descript to check whether the preceding word would make sense in this context in order to more accurately detect if words are filler or not.
Belief Hole Podcast
Agreed! We need the same thing with silence removal. Right now, the shorten silence tool also cuts laughs and unrecognized speech, making it pretty useless for multi-person podcasts. We need a 'if it can't be cut cleanly - leave it alone' option for these feaetures.
Anne Metz
Yes! Totally agree.
Sagnik Datta
Very upset with the lifetime uses on the free plan starting 2nd july… descript realized the value of removing filler word and now wants to arm twist free tier users to upgrade… sigh, am just a student who is trying to play around with descript and liked how it was like canva but now they have disappointed me before i could become raving fan of this product. descript’s loss
Canny AI
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Smoother Filler Words
Robin Dean
This is one of those features that, because I don't think it exists, I'm probably going to cancel my account and move on.
Here's the deal. I'm in just enough of a hurry that no, I don't want to listen to every filler word and decide if removing it will sound bad.
I'm aware that I can simply "delete all" ... and that WOULD BE extremely useful IF it didn't make some of the removals sound jarringly bad.
WHAT I WANT:
A filter that basically says "If there's not a minimum of [x] milliseconds BEFORE the filler word, leave it alone.
You could also add an "after" filter or a "before/after" kind of thing ... but BEFORE is of great importance as it keeps the sound smoother, ie more natural.
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