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.
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.
This workflow is exactly what Descript does. Transcript-based editing, filler word removal, noise reduction, volume normalization, Overdub spoken word correction using the speaker’s voice, eye gaze correction for video, etc.
What ever happened to that Adobe demo? Was that a real product at any point? It's quite amazing how ahead of its time it was. Now that we have AI making people say whatever we want, it felt like Adobe was on the cusp of that then.
I remember people saying at the time that “this is the point at which voice recordings can not be trusted any longer”. And then, like you said nothing happened kind of for a few years until the current AI/ML tech got to where it is currently at.
A genuinely free alternative to Descript sounds very useful.
I've always liked the idea of Descript and was considering building something similar before it came out. The problem is my use case is a couple of videos a year so doesn't fit with an expensive monthly subscription
I don't know if perpetual free trial fits for your definition of genuinely free, but I'm trying to build a competition for Descript at https://smartmediacutter.com/
I've spent some of my free time over the past couple of months working on something similar. It's in a decent state but I need help from somebody who understands the .fcpxml format so you can export your edits to Davinci and FCP.
Hi, matcha.video looks very cool! I'm working on https://smartmediacutter.com which has some overlap in functionality. I'd love to have a chat about matcha and if you have any plans for commercialization, etc.
Right now it exports a .fcpxml file which you would import into you editor (davinici, final cut etc) which includes all of the cuts you made. And from there you could move things around, add effects, do color grading, whatever you need to do to get to a final product.
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.
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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.
Disclaimer: I work at Descript
I've always liked the idea of Descript and was considering building something similar before it came out. The problem is my use case is a couple of videos a year so doesn't fit with an expensive monthly subscription
Take a look at https://matcha.video
This functionality is some of my favorite when editing videos in Descript. It’s so much easier than chopping up waveforms in Audacity
[0] descript.com/
I wondered if this particular feature was really worth paying for so I was happy that I found Audapolis.