Hello, this is Cristi, and this is a very quick tip about Descript. I use Descript every day to
transcribe videos and correct videos and audios and podcasts and all that stuff. And I've noticed
a little problem with Descript, sometimes it does not recognize when you're transcribing,
it doesn't recognize all the words in the audio, and if it doesn't think it's going
to recognize it, it just ignores it and turns it into a black waveform.
So I want to show you how to fix that and in this very quick video,
so let's have a look at this project. I have a project here from Chris Menard, one of my friends,
and I'm transcribing this and it, although it's recognized everything beautifully,
most of the words have been recognized.
If you look down here in the waveform, you can see, and you may see this black
waveform. This is a part of audio that has been ignored. You can still hear it in the
audio. It doesn't remove it, but it did not transcribe it. So if you watch this,
I'm going to play just before that little point, there just go a bit backwards and play this look.
They will not see the new six. Even if you create a poll, so you can see that
these script ignore the word items. And I don't think, I don't know if it's didn't understand it
or why it did that, but it's obviously shows it in my web form here as a black waveform.
The way to fix this, it's very easy, and you may have even more words in there. Maybe it has
trouble understanding. So the way to fix this is to go on the last word that was recognized,
in my case, the word is six. So you want to be typing something
just after that word, including that word
and typing the correct word that you're hearing in the audio, in this case, the word is items.
So if I play this again, you're going to see that the word items is missing from the transcript.
They will not see the new six. Even if you create a poll. So the next phrase,
the next words have been recognized, so how to fix this? Very easy, select the word six here
or the last word that was recognized, and you can see that Descript highlights in the waveform
that word and the piece of audio after it, which it hasn't recognized, and press E to edit. And
now you want to type in the missing word, in this case items. So I'm typing the word items,
I'm leaving six alone because it's in there in that portion of the selection.
And now, watch what happens, watch the waveform down here as I press
Correct. In a couple of seconds, it's going to figure out the missing word
and it's going to match that word with the missing waveform. So there it is, this is how you fix it.
And I only see it a handful of times, depending on the quality of audio
and more likely the accent of the speaker, it can trigger more or less of these black
waveforms that you can go and correct yourself. And now, I can just bring that
phrase back in here and remove the punctuation that has created. And now I have a full phrase
with the matching transcript. They will not see the new six items, even if you create a poll.
So that was great. So this is a quick tip for you in Descript. As I said, I love Descript,
it's very nice, but sometimes it has some quirks, by the time it learns, and I guess they develop
the AI model for a transcription, some of these bugs will appear. So this is one way to fix that.
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