Telethon 2026

If there was a way to auto-mute hosts and guests when they aren't speaking, it would make the clarity of recordings much better and save a lot of editing time.

Show social media safe zones on the canvas and in the export menu as overlays, so creators can avoid placing important visuals where platform UI (captions, profile pics, buttons) will cover them. Captured during Telethon 2026.

Ported from Feature Requests | 45 votes Original post: https://descript.canny.io/feature-requests/p/undefined --- If I search for gaps >0.3s it finds me gaps of a couple of seconds as well. I can't shorten them all to the same length - I have to manually skip them. Would be great to be able to specify the upper bound of the gap length. It would be even better, if I could specify the speed multiplicator (eg. 2x), so result sounds more natural and variable.

Since moving to Descript from other editing software, this is the biggest pain point that I am surprised is not addressed: If I copy something in the timeline (like an image) - or copy something from another descript project - I should be able to paste that thing into my project at the playhead location. Right now it (mostly - sometimes unpredictable) gets pasted at the start of a scene. Pasting at the playhead location in the timeline is a basic functionality that I got used to with tools like imovie and logic pro. Would love to have it in Descript.

We highly use the transcript to generate show notes, full transcript and an episode page. I edit the transcript and add (notes) to add urls to embed on the word previous…. I ended up building some app Tao take the transcript rtf to generate these pastes but it would be a lot better if I could embed a url is some way and hey even some formatting and extra content to the script to generate these transcripts to multi purpose it.

Ported from Feature Requests | 11 votes Original post: https://descript.canny.io/feature-requests/p/undefined --- Are there any plans to integrate the software with transcription pedals? (to stop and start audio.)

Ported from Feature Requests | 18 votes Original post: https://descript.canny.io/feature-requests/p/undefined --- There is currently no way to see the progress of (or cancel) an export to Youtube.

New section in the stock media browser showing the last 20 recently used visual or audio items, so users can quickly reuse assets without re-searching.

We've had tools to do this automatically for 15 years. Crazy that we have to do it manually in Descript.

Plase add support more more languages to the sound editing features, such as edit for clarity, remove filler words, retakes, shorten word gaps, etc.