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Filler Words - Don't ignore/remove unless they can be cleanly removed
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Andrew Mason
Hi folks, Andrew from Descript here.
This is a hard problem to solve, but we're working on it. In the meantime, we've added a cool feature for quickly reviewing edit boundaries, and then restoring removed filler words if you can't clean up the edit. See what you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtgU0tv3L5w
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Jesse Ulrich
Andrew Mason: Would it not be easy to either have a setting or something that says if a filler word has a certain distance before and after a word it is ok to cut, but one that has under a certain distance gets reviewed?
Podcast Advocate
Andrew Mason: thanks Andrew. I’ll use Option d/a abs Option R next edit.
Nico Janssen
Andrew Mason: I just saw that in the Changelog — I'm excited to give it a try!
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Kevin Perry
The removal of filler words has gotten
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better, but it's currently removing all of the breath that precedes the removed "um" or other filler word. I end up having to manually correct by dragging the edit boundary back out. It'd be great to either just have a preview function, or otherwise flag all of the filler word removal edit points in the timeline - at least until the automated tool improves.
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Matt Muto
The Descript software team needs to automatically integrate small fades before and after the automatic edits when using the remove filler words feature.
I'm very surprised they haven't done this already to be honest.
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Steve Ewing
Matt Muto: Or make it an option in Preferences.
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Matt Cheney
I have found that filler words at the start of sentences are removing the breath before them. I want tighter filler removal and all the breathes left in. Sometimes I can have the speaker not breathe for 3mins if they are "ummers".
Jeff Sieh
I really don't like this new update when if I undo a ignored filler word, it still leaves the edit point and a slight break in the audio.
Charlie Harding
I spend a lot of time listening to every filler word to make sure it can be removed. What's funny is that all it requires is an eyeball on the waveform, and I can tell 95% of the time if a filler can be removed. If my eye can do it, surely Descript can as well.
Joe Shirley
Please see this new suggestion to preview filler word removal instances -- maybe merge it into this one?
Title: Preview Filler word removal before committing the edit
Posted by: Tony Tang
Post: Sometimes when filler words are removed, the edit is not clean. I would like an easy way to go through all the detected filler words and hear a preview of each removal and hit a button to accept or reject the removal. That way I can hear if the automatic removal will be clean before committing to the edit.
Harry Hawk
What I really want is to take my human generated transcript and sync with prejudice. What ever isn't in the human transcript is deleted.
Special prejudice: A special code when the human didn't understand the text to allow Descript to pull in the missing parts and then (keep or delete) based on filler word "rules"
Harry Hawk
I put in this request: https://feedback.descript.com/feature-requests/p/human-ai-transcripts
I think a multi-pass transcription (1st external/manual) which is sync'd and then a 2nd pass (AI based) to find the gaps would help with this and other related issues like the filler word tool finding non-filler words.
Emily Rae Stewart-Ronnisch
I got bit by this today with a podcast. Going forward, I'm only going to manually remove filler words.
Max Graham
Yep. Use descript for content edits and hire a professional for proper distraction editing. the AI will never know the right move with filler removal and how to sound natural
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