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New in Descript: Transcription in 23 languages!

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Make your presentation accessible for millions of additional viewers when you create a video with Descript.

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With Descript, remote recording is easy, fast, powerful.

Set up your interview on Zoom, Skype, or Google Hangouts and record directly into Descript. — no additional software needed. And after you finish, you’ll have the transcript in moments.

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Try our script-based editor that makes editing video as easy as editing a doc.

Descript marries the easy capture and sharing of screen recording with easy, powerful editing tools.

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Look for our all-in-one audio & video production that’s as easy as editing a doc.

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Plus it’s a fully powered editing suite that does everything you need to make a great podcast. If you know how to edit a doc, you’re ready to get started.

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Transcribe. Edit. As easy as tapping your backspace key.

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Create your podcast from start to finish with Descript.

Record or import audio, make edits, add fades, music, and sound effects, then publish online, export the audio in the format of your choice or send it directly to your hosting service.

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If you know how to edit a doc, you know how to use Descript.

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Edit audio and video just like editing a doc.

Backspace. Copy and paste. Drag and drop. That’s how you edit audio and video in Descript.

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Remove all your “ums” and “uhs” with a click, correct your voiceover by typing, and get studio-quality sound wherever you record. Check out our

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Today’s Descript release: we've added 22 new languages to automatic transcription.

Backspace. Copy and paste. Drag and drop. That’s how you edit audio and video in Descript.

Edit audio and video just like editing a doc.

Multi-language transcription

Descript creators have been asking for transcription in languages other than English for a long time — it was by far our most-requested updated.

And now it's here. Today we launched transcription support for 22 new languages.

You can now transcribe audio or video in:

Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Slovenian
Turkish

We’ve also launched support for Hindi, but only in the Beta app.

Our Help Center has more on how multi-language transcription works.

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Brandon Copple

Head of Content at Descript. Former Editor at Groupon, Chicago Sun-Times, and a bunch of other places. Dad. Book reader. Friend to many Matts.

Descript is a collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc. It includes transcription, a screen recorder, publishing, and some mind-bendingly useful AI tools.

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Head of Content at Descript. Former Editor at Groupon, Chicago Sun-Times, and a bunch of other places. Dad. Book reader. Friend to many Matts.

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