Improve cross talk transcription
Ryan Nantell
I find it pretty much impossible to fine tune the transcript/script when there's cross talk between host and guest. Seems mostly due to limitations of the "edit text" tool. I'm restricted from changing the speaker labels to accurately reflect who is saying what. Seems like making a "cross talk mode" would be ideal? Allows us to flag a section as full of cross talk and be given free reign with speaker labels, line breaks, etc.
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Alex Wait
It would be great if one of the search options would be "cross talk" just like "word gaps" is an option.
Chelsea Adams
It is essentially IMPOSSIBLE to use Descript for transcriptions of live conversation podcasts because of this problem. It's incredibly frustrating.
Jesse J. Anderson
Cross talk is by far one of the biggest difficulties I run into with Descript and there doesn't seem to be a great solution. It messes up the transcription and fixing rarely works.
Weldon Johnson
Jesse J. Anderson: The only way to really deal with cross talk is by editing a sequence.
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Murray Robinson
Yes - in the transcript - when people on different tracks are speaking at the same time then show the transcript for each track side by side in vertical columns for the period that they are talking over each other. then when only one person is speaking return to the normal transcript
Michael
I'm primarily working with properly isolated multitrack dialogue recordings, and yet the transcription process seems to favor "oh" and "hmm" and "yeah" and even incoherent mumblings over people who are clearly speaking. Transcription ends up peppering a section of monologue with bits of other speakers — who, again, aren't really speaking so much as interjecting. As Ryan says, some way to flag a section as "crosstalk" would be excellent.
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Mason
I'm surprised this isn't a more popular request. I edit a podcast with six people who record remotely, and cross-talk is my most significant time sink. Without a better way to handle this, the Descript composition view is little better than a single-track DAW. I can't save time by reading or scanning the text because I can't trust the text on the screen. I can't save time with the tools for removing filler words or unnecessary gaps because I can't trust it'll handle cross-talk. This tool could save me so much time (and money) if the composition view could be more than just a single-track editor.
W. Curtis Preston
This definitely needs a more elegant solution. The only way I fix it now is to edit the sequence manually to remove the cross talk. And it's not exactly the smoothest editor. :)
Banter Savvy
a similar product called Sonix can handle this with relative ease, so it confuses the hell out of me that Descript can't handle it.....considering it already uploads files individually. Someone on the design-train decided compositions needed to attempt to transcribe all audio together instead of separately and it shat the whole program.
Jay Ojibwe
We need a way to re-trigger a 2nd transcription for a problematic section after fixing the cross talk in a sequence.
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