To be honest I am quite frustrated with Descript recently.

My top issues:

* Transcripts are failing in separating speakers - even when two separate video/audio tracks are being provided. I need to spend hours on Change Speaker

* Transcripts of parallel talk fail to be correct. Example the main person speaking is briefly "interrupted" by a supportive comment like "I see", "That's true" and then the comment becomes the main transcript while the actual contribution is cut out.

* Filler words removal is too aggressive. I cannot trust it at all. It's not just limited to uhs and ehms but also cuts out part of content.

* retake removal is useless. When I transcribe a text using voice to text and then copy the unedited / corrected version to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude I get way better results.

Unterlord's retake removal seems not to understand the text and is doing random things. It would be good to have an clarification dialog to clarify segments that are not clear. Like I can do easily with ChatGPT etc.

* Performance on the Web and the PC. I am having a Core 7i laptop - sadly not with a strong GPU - yet performance has deteriorated dramatically over the past 6-9 months. It's hardly usable at times. A click takes often a minute to respond. Today in retake removal when selecting a suggestion and trying to listen to it. Took average 20s before the play back started and another 10s until the location in the text was showing up.

* Underlord's feature to automatically select scenes has failed on me many time recently. Too many scene changes. Lack of multicam (two speaker) scenes. Changing manually takes ages because of performance issues reported before.

I was getting used to the workflow of Descript earlier this year and kind of liked it. Now I am considering switching to a different tool.

Focus on your core strength - Transcript, Speaker Detection, Text based editing - and maybe on Scenes (the editing process with layers, like not being able to group) to make it easier.

The AI features need to be solid, otherwise no point beyond the marketing hype.

Cheers

Joerg