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Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by tehwebguy »

XCSme wrote: post #32

The 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,…

Yes! Extremely helpful and time saving. The app has changed since then but a few years ago I had a blast using it.

You can also indicate who is speaking as you generate a transcript. I would then export a closed caption file and use ffmpeg to generate the video based on who was talking before merging it with the audio (think no budget v-tuber, just a different image on screen depending on who’s voice is playing)

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by tehwebguy »

simonmales wrote: post #55
robenkleene wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both this video ( https://sandwich.co/work/descript-video/ ), and their original promotional video ( https://sandwich.co/work/its-how-you-make-a-podcast/ ), were done by Sandwich.

Could anyone spit ball the cost of such a video? I'll try: $100k (USD) Higher or lower?

Depends entirely on who you hire and how much you let them know about your budget. I am confident that I saw a HN post years ago that mentioned Sandwich starts at $250k but again client work is almost always very negotiable.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by Erazal »

jodrellblank wrote: post #57
Erazal wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your demo takes me to: > Oops Your browser is not supported. Install Firefox or Google Chrome. Safari on iOS has 6x the market share of Firefox and is quite capable of playing audio and video, it’s not IE6.

:/

On iOS Firefox and Chrome will actually also fail as they're all based on the Safari Web engine.

Sadly enough we can't make Spoke work with Safari yet as we're using video specific interpeted browser instructions.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by mandiantBob »

ffpip wrote: post #25
krackers wrote: post #12

Their 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 is not correct. The security page only shows that they use Google for Speech to Text.

Instead, Text to Speech is done using technology developed by Lyrebird.ai, which Descript has bought over. Descript rebranded it as Overdub. Note that style transfer learning of voices is a hard problem and Overdub seems to have nailed it perfectly. I speculate that the underlying technology of Overdub is based on sv2tts (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04558).

The closest comparision to Overdub would be https://www.resemble.ai/.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by andy_ppp »

tehwebguy wrote: post #62
simonmales wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could anyone spit ball the cost of such a video? I'll try: $100k (USD) Higher or lower?

Depends entirely on who you hire and how much you let them know about your budget. I am confident that I saw a HN post years ago that mentioned Sandwich starts at $250k but again client work is almost always very negotiable.

Wow, it’s good but $250k is a shedload of cash, you could hire 3 people in this field for a year for that (certainly in London). They could do all your training material too...

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by beernutz »

anentropic wrote: post #60
rjvs wrote: post #56

From the pricing page, it looks like even if you pay for the most expensive option, you still only get to remove their watermark for 30 minutes! If you are paying for the basic service (NOT free) you can only remove their watermark for 2 minutes! Apart from that, it looks like an interesting product.

Where did you read that? I can't see anything about watermarking here https://www.descript.com/pricing

If you hover over the Audiograms Pro help icon on the right, (midway down in the Pro plan card) it says "Custom colors, background images, and remove the Descript logo. 30 min max size (vs. 2 minutes)"

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by anentropic »

Looks great. Would love to be able to use it without signing up for an online account :(

That is annoying in the first place, then when you try to sign up the password field has finnicky rules like requiring upper+lowercase+numbers+symbols and min length 10.

This is compounded by the fact that it does not integrate with Chrome so I can't easily get an auto-generated strong password stored with all my other ones. Nor does it allow using a Google or Facebook account to signup.

Re: Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

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Post by anentropic »

beernutz wrote: post #68
anentropic wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you read that? I can't see anything about watermarking here https://www.descript.com/pricing

If you hover over the Audiograms Pro help icon on the right, (midway down in the Pro plan card) it says "Custom colors, background images, and remove the Descript logo. 30 min max size (vs. 2 minutes)"

Oh right I see

But it seems like that only applies to the "Audiograms" feature, not the videos you export from the main product (?)

https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042638351-Aud...

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