Descript Reviews & Product Details

Makes video radically easy to polish. I use it for contract work (very quickly distilling rambling interviews with clients into near-primietime-ready course videos). I use it for my own business for most social content. I use it for voice notes because it allows me to quickly distill my own rambling soliloquies into usable blog posts, notes, etc. And if I ever start that podcast I know it won't be the pain of editing that stops me!

I'd love a mobile app, Make integration, and more out-of-the-box integrations to connect Descript to the rest of my stack. These would increase my usage a lot as I could take voice notes on the go, edit them later in a few clicks, and organize them in other apps like project and asset management solutions. Another really cool thing to have would be better built-in AI editing: I find myself copy-pasting transcripts into ClickUp to have their inline AI editor fix the punctuation, then manually replacing the transcript in Descript. This should be in-housed; it's all just Open AI tech.

They are drastically lowering the barrier to making polished video content with captions and quality transcripts. I'm way more productive using Descript, and it's so good I keep thinking up new use cases I wouldn't have thought of (personal voice notes for creative writing?) Instead of dreading making video, I look for excuses to do it.

The speech-to-text accuracy is the best I've seen among tools of its type. The short interactive tutorial is so simple, yet immensely helpful.

Working with the items on the timeline can be very touchy. It would be nice to have more menu items for procedures rather than attempting to click and drag a tiny circle within the timeline.

I originally purchased Descript so my team would have a quick and accurate transcription tool. We have also started using the "Create a Voice" feature which is saving an immense amount of time for narration. We are saving, on average, about 8 hours of development time due to this feature.

I love that they onboard you so warmly and professionally. Usually, there is a learning curve, but Descript uses its own interface to walk you through. It's an interactive tutorial by an actual human, Tiff. The editing process is very easy, and that is what makes this software so neat. This is the first software I've come across where you can delete, insert and change scenes based on the transcript.

Nothing, it's a very innovative video editing software. In fact, it really impressed me.

It's really easy to use and not cumbersome. I like how it's smooth and a lot of thought went into the user experience. It's well developed and the user interface is easy to navigate, unlike other new startups where you can clearly see was not well thought of or well coded.

Easy to use AI program that let you do the transcription in No Time.

It doesnt produce a transcription per line. It will give you the general transcription but not by speaker

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Editing audio and video is amazing with the feature to remove filler words using the transcript. When it does it with a video it also removes that section of the video and the edit is seamless.

When adding subtitles to a video the rendering time significantly increases.

Editing educational videos and will soon start to use it for editing a podcast. Using the transcript to edit makes it so fast and adding subtitles works better than other platforms I have tried.

Honestly, I can't believe how easy Descript makes things from top to bottom. For example, I've used it mostly for transcriptions. You just upload your audio and let Descript do its thing. You get a notification when the transcription is done.

This isn't really a problem just yet, but the Descript team has been adding features over the past few years. The platform is now very powerful. Great for podcasters, YouTubers, and transcriptionists, but I just hope it doesn't get to the point where there are so many video editing options that it becomes confusing.

I've been using Descript for transcriptions, and it's just changed the game. I'm saving so much time. I've realized that with this tool, I could very easily start editing Youtube videos or podcasts as well.

Descript is the app I use after getting my files transcribed through Rev. What I like best about Descript is the ability to upload an audio and having an AI or a roughly produced transcript.

The only thing I don't like about Descript is that sometimes it takes hours for a transcript to be done because of a downtime and we don't get notified with the issues or there is no place to view the ongoing errors for it.

It is solving my transcription issues. I benefit from it because I need AI transcripts constantly as an Executive Assistant. That's why Descript has been a really big help on my daily tasks.

Ease-of-use and frequent updates make Descript very fun to use. As one of many tools that I use to edit and produce podcasts, Descript is never one to get in the way of my flow.

Honestly, there's very little that I dislike enough to write about.

I've been able to more easily make edits using Descript than when I was using a traditional DAW. Reading each episode's transcript as I follow along with the audio is such a powerful feature, and I find myself better and quicker edits. My services have only improved.

transcription is a very awesome feature.

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

The cost is a little high

Descript simply works. I use it mostly just to transcribe and caption videos.

Wish it had more flexibility with exporting FCP documents. I use a multi-cam workflow that doesn't really work with descript. If it did I would do the bulk of my editing in descript! Wish it were a bit easier to correct transcription errors and to add certain pronunciations to descript. I have one client with a minor accent that descript consistently mis-transcribes the same common words, that I need to go in and correct with each session.

use it mostly just to transcribe and caption videos. Saves a ton of time and integrates well into my workflow