INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the
decline of broadcast radio
funding, an acquisition, and the launch of a new tool that brings some of the magic of natural language processing and AI to the medium by
letting people create audio of their own voices based on text that they type.Descript, the latest startup from Groupon founder Andrew Mason,
built audio editing tools
that they can in turn use to create audio based on words that they type, part of a bigger production suite that will also let users edit
multiple voices on multiple tracks
The audio can be standalone, or the audio track for a video
(The video transcription works a little differently: when you add in words, or take them out, the video makes jumps to account for the
changes in timing.)Overdub is the latest addition to a product that lets users create instant transcriptions of audio text, which is then
has already established a following among podcasters and others that use transcription software as part of their audio production suites
tells me that the company has built a way to keep that from being able to happen
To activate the editing feature, users have to first record a number of repeated-back, created on the fly and in real time, which are then
used to shape your digital voice profile
awfully sorry for suggesting that building walls between the US and Mexico was a good idea, and that this would not, in fact, make America
But part of our role is to create awareness of the possibilities
Your voice is your identity, and you need to own that voice
in artificial intelligence to address what is a growing market
streaming businesses.On the other, the area of production tools for podcasters is a very crowded market, with a number of startups and
others putting out a lot of tools that all work quite well in identifying what people are saying and transcribing it accurately.On the front
of transcription and the area where Descript is working, rivals include the likes of Trint, Wreally and Otter, among many others
other tool out there that has done what we have done with large uncompressed audio files
No one would have thought of something like product design to be huge space but just by taking these tools for collaboration and
successfully porting them to the cloud, companies like Figma have emerged
