I really liked the idea of showing a gif with a 'Play with sound' button which pops up the video. Very innovative!
Probably forced by technology, browsers don't allow autoplay with sound anymore.
Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
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#42I really liked the idea of showing a gif with a 'Play with sound' button which pops up the video. Very innovative!
I thought that was neat too (and the video itself was awesome), however I do with that they had hidden the gif when the video begins playing. Most modern machines won't mind, but my older machine didn't like having to play a video whilst also render an animated gif in the background - it managed, but the CPU shot up considerably.
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#43s/Descript/self-promotion/g
Descript is an amazing product and one of the main inspirations for our startup and product : www.spoke.app
We offer the same services of editing by high-lighting text, but differ in so far as we offer video + direct capture of your content (both your microphone and system sound). Our goal isn't as much to produce nice, clean-cut videos, than to offer to summarize any video-conversation you might have for co-workers, friends, etc.
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#44"some mind-bendingly useful AI tools" Does anyone else find this kind of "hypey" copy a put off?
After watching the video the AI tools do look mind-bendingly useful, so I take back what I said before!
Yeah I thought the same, many people nowadays just call decision trees and algorithms "AI", but this is some really handy stuff out of the reach of decision trees and algorithms. It understands what you say, learns your voice so you can correct what you say. Truly usefull, although AI is a big word for how they use Deep Learning of course. But ok, AI means "uses Deep Learning" I can live with that.
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#45I've had to do a lot of videos of my talks this year for virtual conferences. This would be useful to eliminate all of those ums and ahs. My 20-minute presentation would likely get cut down to 15...
I'd be interested to know the impact of cutting out the ums and its impact on the pacing/cadence of a talk.
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#46Hard not to read the name as "DES-crypt," although that's surely a non-issue for the target audience...
They poke fun that the name is tricky to pronounce at the end of the video.
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#47s/Descript/self-promotion/g Descript is an amazing product and one of the main inspirations for our startup and product : www.spoke.app We offer the same services of editing by high-lighting text, but differ in so far as we offer video + direct capture of your content (both your microphone and system sound). Our goal isn't as much to produce nice, clean-cut videos, than to offer to summarize any video-conversation yo…
Here's a small demo I made for the new year, comparing speeches from different heads of State : https://cutt.ly/happy_new_year_from_spoke
Western leaders all seem to adopt the same compassionate tone, and wish to shine hope on the new year (with the exception of Trump).
On the other hand, Xi Jinping is just....self-congratulating.
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#48Their TTS alone is very convincing. Seems to be better than what Google and Amazon have to offer https://www.descript.com/overdub
They use Google for TTS. https://www.descript.com/security
This was hands down one of the best security pages I've ever read. Incredibly clear, concise and to the point
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#49What’s the general error rate on transcription technology at this point?
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#50The video is one of the best I've seen, really makes me excited for the product. As for the product itself, I think the biggest "feature" is the ability to cut the audio by cutting the transcript, which makes it easier to quickly edit files. Transcribing is pretty common, the dubbing also sounds interesting but depends on how good the quality is. I think the use-case for this is not YouTubers who expect high-quality,…
I think this has huge potential for the education market especially in post-pandemic world where remote learning is more or less accepted.