3/19/2024 0 Comments Iword audio program![]() ![]() Editing is then as simple as deleting words in the same way as you would with a word processor. Check out this very short example:ĭescript sends your audio through the Google Speech API to turn it into text (with a premium option to send it for personal treatment by a human instead), then places tabs above the timeline, showing which words are which bits of the waveform. ![]() If speech-to-text had existed a few decades ago, there's a very good chance that's how we'd have been editing all along. It's a complete rethink of our relationship with editing speech, focused on the words and not the audio. But what if – instead of seeing waveforms on our screens – we could see the words themselves, and then edit the audio… by editing the text?Īrguably, that makes a lot more sense, and that's exactly what Descript is offering. And, after years of practice, I can now spot certain sounds now just by their shape on the monitor. Being able to see the waveforms of my words on the screen in front of me made things a lot easier than having to spin backwards and forwards while juggling a chinagraph pencil, a roll of editing tape and a razor blade. I started out editing on tape back in the late 1980s, then made the transition to digital editing some years later. ![]() If Descript had existed a few years ago, perhaps things might have been different. But in the end, because I use a program like Pro Tools, I realised it fitted my workflow better – and saved me more time overall – to just punch back in over the mistake and simplify the editing part in the process. I tried using a "clicker" for a while, so I could spot pickups coming up in the timeline and maybe speed things up a little. Then I'd worry about taking out the mistakes later. For years, whenever I made a mistake, I'd just leave the recording running, back up and take it from the top of the sentence. Those of us who spend hours recording the human voice – and then listening back and editing the results – invariably find our own, personal, best ways of working. ![]()
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