fix how descript cuts off words when underlord deletes dead air
in development
Gabe Michalski
Merged in a post:
Ignoring or deleting a single word in a script causes clipping.
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Krista Daly
Can this be fixed...or in the cases where clipping occurs don't charge for regeneration.
Gabe Michalski
Built at Telethon — Underlord's dead air removal will no longer cut off the beginning of the next word, so your edits will sound clean and natural. Demo: https://share.descript.com/view/kPiJSBK8oOB
Note: pending QA and subject to change before release.
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Steven Conti
Gabe Michalski this is great news. How can we employ this improvement? Is it ready for use on the consumer side?
Gabe Michalski
Steven Conti: We are testing each of these features before we release them into the wild! I'll be updating individual things here, and we'll do a roundup post to changelog once everything is shipped.
Gabe Michalski
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hema uppili
Absolutely. Is there a way to avoid that.
LevelUp
I appreciate this is a difficult one, for all the reasons Gabe explains - but it is the single biggest barrier to being able to fully utilise other key features. As long as we can't fully trust the transcription, it keeps us in manual mode.
Gabe Michalski
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Jeffrey Todd Sooey - Thanks for mentioning this.
I think I can explain the root cause here, as a way of explaining that it
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fit as a telethon request:The most common cause of Shorten Word Gaps (executed as an AI action, or via Underlord) cutting off real speech, is that the Word Alignment - the system that tells Descript what audio is attached to what word and where that word begins and ends - is inaccurate.
The usual way to fix this is to re-transcribe the file, but of course you would not know it's a problem until you shortened the gaps, by which point you may have done other work.
Suffice it to say, this is a problem that could require more in-depth solutions that are possible in a 2 day hackathon, but I will keep you posted!
Michelle Samson
Not just one word but sometimes several. Why can’t Descript recognize that there’s a sound wave and therefore it’s not silence?
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Steven Conti
Michelle Samson agreed. i am battling this right now. it's turned what was supposed to be a useful, time/money saving tool into the opposite. hopefully a fix is arriving soon.