Descript
Address: 385 Grove St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
Descript is the simple, powerful, and fun way to edit.
Website: www.descript.com
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Latest news
- Jul 16: Adobe Podcast Studio (Beta) is now available for everyone to try. The tool, like Descript and Eddy, lets you record, edit and enhance audio right in your browser. It was in limited beta in March.
- Jul 10: Descript has launched “a faster, more responsive” desktop app.
- Jul 4: Descript has published a detailed guide on how “value 4 value” works.
- Jun 21: “AI video regenerate” has been announced by Descript - a service that will “generate your AI voice and sync your lips so you look and sound like you said it that way the first time”. If you want access, you need to join the waitlist. (Riverside’s competitor, Video Dub, is also not generally available yet).
- Jun 20: Is your work in Descript being used to train generative AI tools - and could it leak out in other forms? Writing in The Squeeze, Skye Pillsbury notes that a major investor in Descript is OpenAI, a company which has been keen to grab as much training data for its tools as possible. Does that include your content in Descript - even the stuff that doesn’t make it to your final podcast? The company says no, but is there more to the story?
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