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Only remove silence from "Shorten Word Gaps" (Strip Silence)
Bryan Schiele
If there's laughter or unknown words after transcription, the Shorten Word Gaps feature wants to remove those sections, leaving a choppy edit if you wanted to select "Apply to all". For example, in this screenshot, the name "I-17" (a road here in Arizona) isn't recognized and would be cut if I used the "Apply to All" option.
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Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason
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Belief Hole Podcast
Andrew Mason: Does this mean this improvement will be happening eventually? Cause that would be amazing. Right now I have to download the session from Descript (after removing filler words) and then use Reaper to shorten the word gaps.
Greg
This also applies to music cues or foreign languages. Descript removes it all when 'shorten word gaps' is applied. Appreciate the fix~
Dan Reyes-Cairo
Merged in a post:
Strip silence
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Hubert Hiemstra
I used to use an editing tool (Ferrite) that gave you the ability to automatically remove all the gaps between speech in an individual track with one click without adjusting the time line. In multitrack recordings this was useful at the start of editing to auto-delete everything except the current speaker, so getting rid of background noise, throat clearing etc that interfered with the speaker.
Jason Dinkel
I wonder how many customers (meaning end users of the videos produced by Descript) would like to have an option to play the video or podcast with a mode that lets them "skip silence" but if they wish be able to listen to it. Would it be more interesting to put this option as an end user option in addition to an editor option?
For example:
- I create a video or podcast and I really don't want anybody to hear the gaps, so I remove them. Makes sense.
- I create a video and I don't mind if the gaps are left in the material because some of my audience really want the uncut version, but they may want to have a way to skip forward from time to time also. Makes sense also.
So, the toggle might be useful in both the editor and in the player so the user can turn it on or off... Sort of gives Descript a value add if both options are available...
Nono Martínez Alonso
Jason Dinkel: This is a great idea. Many tools are implementing this as a feature. Apple Voice Memos has an option named "skip silence" that lets you play the same audio with or without silences. YouTube could add such a function. It may be a bit hard to implement this on podcast feeds though.
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Tom Solid
YEAH! I hope Descript will give us a threshold picker to identify what is actual silence. Sometimes people are whispering or getting quiter in the end of their sentence which is also recognized as Word Gaps. If we have control, showing Descript what is actual Silence in the recording, it would help avoiding mispicks.
Sean McCabe
SO glad this is planned!!!
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Chris Ridgeway
Yay! planned!
Eric Hsu
So glad to see this feature is being planned.
For my personal workflow, the true godsend would be the option to cut silence only when the video is still. The large majority of my editing deals with this situation by hand.
Sunny Rochiramani
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