Feature Requests

When I use AI to shorten word gaps, it goes overboard. It truncates laughter, crosstalk and, often, actual dialogue that, for some reason, Descript didn't transcribe (usually the last word or two of someone speaking). Then I have to play back the entire composition and manually re-extend the shortenings that cut off too early. At the end of it, I don't save any time with this tool. This tool should be changed to just be "shorten gaps" rather than "shorten WORD gaps."

Allow guest to join rooms from mobile devices

when you use the edit for clarity mode and "um" or "uh" was not fully cut. Leaves half of it in and cuts what is after instead

It would be great to have access to Virtual backgrounds for screen recorder

I’d like a way to programmatically retrieve the transcript of a composition via API, without needing to publish it first. The current workflow—publishing just to access the transcript—is slow and not ideal for automation or privacy. Direct API access would streamline workflows and open up more integration possibilities.

Up until a week or so ago, my generated transcripts included punctuation at the end of sentences. Starting about a week ago, the periods disappeared. The sentence ends. No punctuation. The new sentence starts with a capital letter. I think this is a new bug, but your AI support says this is a new feature request. So here I am. Can you please fix this bug?

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Just in case, but so far cant tell while it's in dub: We need to include having exclamations, capitalization, question marks, etc, have their own recorded inputs/outputs. Or at least highlight what you want to have expression/tonality and test around the attitude of a sentence or word.

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When set to Auto, the script on rare occasions gets Urdu Transcription but mostly gets a Hind transcription. I would like request support for Urdu Transcription along with RTL captions as well.