Laughter Detection/Transcription/Tagging
Matt Hayward
Laughter in a recording is not transcribed, and shows up as "silence."
Thus bulk remove of silence removes laughter, and other non-word communication (gasps, sighs, etc.).
Ideally transcription would tag common exclamations as Laughter, Sigh, etc.
Barring that, it would be nice if it could distinguish between actual silence, and non-word sounds in transcription so that shorten silences wouldn't cut out things like that, or could be at least be configured not to.
It seems like the "tagging" functionality would be a good match for this, however that does not work on Multitrack, and this feature would be needed in Multitrack as well.
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David Etler
Totally. I’d add overtalking to this. Tagging overtalking and laughter can also be used as signals to Overlord of important moments, helpful in finding clips to create.
Canny AI
Merged in a post:
Recognize laughter
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Carson Gale
I love the remove silences and trim content features, I just wish it wouldn't also remove the laughter. Would be great to not lose laughter by default when I do these mass quick edits.
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Luke
+1 to this again, it's still a pending enhancement, and currently makes the dead air tool a little pointless, as still need to work through the whole edit to ensure nothing truncated.
Belief Hole Podcast
Luke this is 100% right. Tool is sadly useless for us for this exact reason.
Propane
Also - often laughter is a signal that a funny moment has happened, and should be highlighted to a new composition for repurposed social media content
Propane
YES - chopping out laughter sounds awkward, and should definitely be treated separately to silence
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Luke
Propane: I'd third this. It makes the dead air tool a little useless as I still need to review each cut manually.