As a non-native English speaker, my most frequent and essential task is correcting my own pronunciation errors on a word-by-word basis. Your current AI Overdub feature, while powerful, is prohibitively expensive for this high-frequency use case. The credit system makes it impossible to affordably correct the dozens of small mistakes that are a natural part of our workflow. The core issue is that the credit cost for your AI features is completely unreasonable for non-native speakers who need to correct pronunciation. Let me be specific: My plan provides 400 credits. Each single-word correction costs 10 credits. This means my entire monthly subscription fee only allows me to fix 40 words. I often need to correct more than 40 words in a single video. This makes your pricing model not just expensive, but fundamentally unworkable for my essential workflow. The value proposition is broken. The existing solutions on the market are either just as expensive or require inconvenient, multi-app workflows. Therefore, I would like to propose a simpler, more direct feature that would be a game-changer for us: A "Punch-In and Replace" audio recording tool. Here is how it could work: A user highlights a misspoken word or phrase in the transcript. They click a "Re-record" button. A simple recording interface appears. The user re-records the audio for just that highlighted segment. This new, correctly pronounced audio clip seamlessly replaces the original bad take on the timeline. This feature would not need to rely on expensive AI credits. It would provide a fast, simple, and—most importantly—affordable way for us to perfect our narration. By implementing this, you would make Descript the go-to platform for the massive and growing market of non-native creators. Otherwise, at your current pricing for AI fixes, your product remains inaccessible for us.
