Descript Pricing Overview

transcription is a very awesome feature.

I don't like that you don't have stock music

The cost is a little high

Where do I start! I've been using Descript for a few years now, and every month they are improving and adding new features. It just keeps getting better and better. Incredible value for how much time it saves me. Descript's unique studio sound effect is absolutely mind-blowing. The transcription gets tricky words, and the words it doesn't get, I can teach it by adding them to the glossary. With the Windows 11 update, I was running into a bug while recording directly in the application. After emailing support back and forth for a few days, their head customer service tech guy GOT ON A ZOOM CALL WITH ME to personally address the issue. I've NEVER experienced that level of attention to a bug fix. It was then resolved with the next update.

Adjusting speaker labels can be a little finicky sometimes.

Descript solves several problems at once. I transcribe and edit at the same time. It's amazing.

The interface is extremely welcoming and intuitive. It works well for everyone on my team, no matter the skill level.

The price. There's really no way around it, but you're dependent on their servers, and our internet speed.

We create content from Zoom or other remote methods and Studio Sound is a lifesaver. Also, it's easy to edit screen captures and things via text, making it really easy for our curriculum team to review videos.

It's so simple to use, uploading and saving projects easily across many devices. Although I'm the only one in my company that uses it, I know that there are many different options to work on the project with others. It's super easy to use and very intuitive. I think it's a great price.

Honestly, I'm yet to find any, I've found that everything I need to use it for, I can do. Even editing YouTube videos that were recorded separately. Only thing I would like to see added as a feature is to resize videos/images. But not sure if you can do this already and I just haven't found it yet.

I use it for editing podcasts, it's so much quicker than manually editing as it has the filler word removal which I find my guests and I often need cleaning up.

I love how simple it is to record my podcast in Descript and then edit it later. I also love the transcribing feature. It is a powerful little program, well worth it's price.

The keyboard shortcuts change and are a little tricky to master. But that is with any program.

Descript helps me to increase the speed of my workflow.

The ability to edit audio/video by editing the words on the page is just remarkable. It saves a ton of time when you're first getting your clips arranged and trimming out the fluff. As a marketer, I need to create testimonials and videos like that which start out with a lot of footage. Descript's editing process makes it so easy to find the best content and put it to use quickly. And the STUDIO SOUND beta, OMG. Makes my audio sound like I just ran it through a whole post-process -- but it just does it.

Occasionally there are minor bugs, but usually, they are cleared up fast. A few of the interactions on the timeline for editing aren't intuitive to me. It's small stuff, and eventually, you figure how to click to slice versus select versus drag.

Descript helps me edit video and audio faster. The monthly fee pays for itself in productivity if I use it for an hour. So all the audio and video content that we're producing as a marketing organization, I can run certain parts of my workflow through Descript and instead of staring at waveforms, I can work with the words themselves. The audiograms, the publishing, the fake AI voice -- all that stuff is nice but it's not even my core thing.

The transcripts are accurate enough (not perfect, but fine), the membership structure works well for me as a freelance writer -- I pay during months when I need to do transcription, but downgrade during months when I'm not working (vs an annual model, which is cheaper per month but only if I use it, or a per-minute model, which at other services is more expensive in the long run). I also love the speaker ID function, which has saved me a ton of time when I search through transcripts for the quotes I need! Lastly, it does surprisingly well with non-American accents, which is amazing because I interview people all over the world.

There's nothing I actively dislike! I would be interested in seeing a freelancer model that allowed something closer to pay-as-you-go at a rate that's comparable to your existing fee levels, but that I didn't have to pay active attention to canceling and restarting as needed. (Though I still think that of the comparable services, your levels as structured now work better for me than other services.) Secondly, if this already exists I haven't found it: I'd love to be able to see a view that shows only my highlighted quotes. That would save me a lot of time hunting through long transcripts!

Descript affordably saves me SO MUCH TIME transcribing interviews, and does so well enough that I can rely on it to scan through long recorded interviews to recall the conversation and identify quotes to use in my work. Identifying speakers was a big upgrade to even better streamline my workflow.

While machine-learning / automated transcriptions are never 'perfect', Descript is my go-to tool for getting a transcript of raw documentary/interview footage when I need to edit film really quickly.

I wish there was a student discount since 30/month can get pretty steep. Additionally, the changing UI can be confusing when I'm trying to correct a transcript, because sometimes the exported subtitle track can be off on timing in the final video editing program.

I'm cutting down a lot of editing time by having a transcript I can refer to with associated timestamps. Video editing and documentary filmmaking has become less time-consumed with simply transcribing interviews.