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Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#11
I remember when Adobe demoed this idea of being able to edit waveforms by the recognized text back in 2016 and it was pretty mind blowing for the time.

https://youtu.be/I3l4XLZ59iw

EDIT: I could also definitely see Audapolis being useful if you could integrate it into a podcast's post processing flow (volume normalization, de-essing) by recognizing certain verbal tics and automatically removing them from the audio such as "ummmm...", etc.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#12

IMHO you should really change the headline on this. I'm an audio person, and my first thought was "that's stupid, words are awful at describing sound". But then I looked, and editing transcriptions of voice recordings by word is actually a great idea. That was not the impression the headline gave me, FWIW!

I'm also an audio person and I understood it just fine, so whatevs.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#13

One of the hosts of a podcast that I listen to has had positive things to say about DeScript.[0] Just mentioning it because he's been talking about it for a few years so I expect its had a good amount of feature development over time. [0] descript.com/

I love Descript. Their "convert to studio quality" feature is better than Adobe's and ElevenLabs, in my experience.

I wondered if this particular feature was really worth paying for so I was happy that I found Audapolis.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#14
Hindenburg also added this capability.

> Hindenburg’s manuscript feature gives you a complete overview of your audio. You can select the text just as you would in a text document and watch as your edits are made in real-time. If you need to export your text in a specific format, no problem. Hindenburg supports the most common text and transcription export formats.

https://hindenburg.com/

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#15

IMHO you should really change the headline on this. I'm an audio person, and my first thought was "that's stupid, words are awful at describing sound". But then I looked, and editing transcriptions of voice recordings by word is actually a great idea. That was not the impression the headline gave me, FWIW!

I'm also an audio person and I understood it just fine, so whatevs.

If you're trying to get attention, copy should be clear to all readers. The fact that you did not misread it in no way demonstrates that others won't.

And why the rude response?

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#17

IMHO you should really change the headline on this. I'm an audio person, and my first thought was "that's stupid, words are awful at describing sound". But then I looked, and editing transcriptions of voice recordings by word is actually a great idea. That was not the impression the headline gave me, FWIW!

To me (not an audio person), it was pretty obvious that the headline meant editing voice recordings.

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also an audio person and I understood it just fine, so whatevs.

If you're trying to get attention, copy should be clear to all readers. The fact that you did not misread it in no way demonstrates that others won't. And why the rude response?

I also understood it fine, but maybe we both just remember the Adobe demo that vunderba mentioned. I guess it might not be so obvious if you don't know about that?

On the other hand it does say "not waveform" which I think makes it pretty clear. What would you suggest instead?

Re: Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform

#20
Somewhat off-topic: I saw the funding note at the bottom - it’s pretty cool that the German government is giving some funding to projects like this. I wonder how much the US is doing in that regard, like if there’s a list of projects that tax dollars goes towards.
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