fix how descript cuts off words when underlord deletes dead air
under consideration
LevelUp
I appreciate this is a difficult one, for all the reasons Gabe explains - but it is the single biggest barrier to being able to fully utilise other key features. As long as we can't fully trust the transcription, it keeps us in manual mode.
Gabe Michalski
marked this post as
under consideration
Jeffrey Todd Sooey - Thanks for mentioning this.
I think I can explain the root cause here, as a way of explaining that it
might not
fit as a telethon request:The most common cause of Shorten Word Gaps (executed as an AI action, or via Underlord) cutting off real speech, is that the Word Alignment - the system that tells Descript what audio is attached to what word and where that word begins and ends - is inaccurate.
The usual way to fix this is to re-transcribe the file, but of course you would not know it's a problem until you shortened the gaps, by which point you may have done other work.
Suffice it to say, this is a problem that could require more in-depth solutions that are possible in a 2 day hackathon, but I will keep you posted!
Michelle Samson
Not just one word but sometimes several. Why can’t Descript recognize that there’s a sound wave and therefore it’s not silence?
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Steven Conti
Michelle Samson agreed. i am battling this right now. it's turned what was supposed to be a useful, time/money saving tool into the opposite. hopefully a fix is arriving soon.