Spontaneously recorded shows often include laughter, which which sounds creepy and unnatural after Studio Sound, and which edits poorly with Shorten Gaps.

I work on several podcasts, and my participants don't have great microphones so I lean pretty heavily on Studio Sound to clean up the audio.

But Studio sound will somehow leave in tongue clicks, or lip smacks, (which I have to edit out) but then eliminate laughter. Why? I want to hear them laughing at each other's jokes, etc. Can we please train it to leave the laughs in? Thanks!

it makes the sound great, but removes bits of my laughter of loud comments. the times i'm having fun with a guest for example.

Hi! I absolutely love the Studio Sound feature and it has really elevated my podcasts. But the feature does remove the 's' sound kind of often, and also, the laughing sound can sometimes be filtered quite strangely. Would love that to be a bit more refined!

In sequences with with multiple speakers and tracks, I would love a strip silence feature - protools has this feature - analyze the tracks and completely mute the track when no adequate signal is happening (like the person isn't talking), like in a podcast when the other speaker is talking it would completely mute the audio of the person who is not talking.

Even when no audible audio signal is coming through there is still a noise floor - audio level created by the components and also ac/heat and room noise, breathing, mouse clicks, etc..

This would reduce the step of dumping all of the tracks into a DAW just to strip the silence and then have to export them out and dump them into descript.

The new studio sound upgrade from last month is so much WORSE than the original feature used to be. With the original version, I could literally just record voiceovers in my office, click the button, and they were broadcast ready. In your effort to increase the sensitivity, so that laughter in podcasts would come through (which is I think the new ability you touted) the studio sound effect now lets all sorts of breath and mouth noises and other artifact through. Yes, it does still take away that empty-room echo and make it sound like it's in a studio, but the resulting audio track is still unusable garbage. I have to export it into audacity and run it through a series of noise gates, and de-esser's, and de-clickers, and spend hours removing noises by hand just to make it usable. Even then, it doesn't sound half as good as your original amazing studio sound filter did with one click. I understand that I am using descript more for narration and less for podcasts, so I am probably more sensitive to the change. Perhaps you could put the old studio sound back as a second option, for instance have one studio sound intended for podcasts, that allows that breathing and laughter to come through during the conversation, and then the original studio sound for us narrators, who are sitting right up on top of the mic, trying to get a good, rich, clean, breathless tone, free from gasping or spit in our mouth.

Future Improvement?