Filler Words - Don't ignore/remove unless they can be cleanly removed
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Pierre
Yes, if AI can remove the music from a song and keep only the words being sung, Descript should be able to remove a filler word seamlessly. They just need not to cut out the word, but to more it leaving the background intact, like in the said music removal.
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Kate Astrakhan
I would like to add my voice to this. The most recent update, in particular, is absolutely terrible for this. Horrible. That you moved the "remove repeated words" and other items into the "Remove Retakes" has made this platform useless for my company as we can edit faster, cleaner, with better results than Descript. You seem bent on releasing lots of things quickly rather than releasing quality updates slowly that provide excellent results. We can no longer trust Descript for quality output.
Canny AI
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Less harsh cuts when removing filler words
Chipper Nicodemus
When removing filler words like ums, uhs, etc the cuts are so harsh and abrupt it makes for such a poor audio experience. Often it makes more sense not to use the removal features because of the negative impact to the audio.
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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Pierre
Belief Hole Podcast. To me Descript likes to go fast. Iterate fast. It takes more than a sprint to fine-tune a feature.
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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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Filler word cuts are too sharp
Martin Carlsson
When removing filler words, the cut is too sharp.
It sounds unnatural.
Maybe add a few milliseconds in place of a filler word
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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.
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