Like it or not, video has become an essential part of how we communicate. And while it’s gotten easier to capture and share video, editing remains difficult, slow, and non collaborative.

We’re pleased to report that Descript 3.4 is now available for download! It’s our first release in a few months, and there’s a huge number of new features and improvements – watch the video above for the highlights, or read its transcript below.

Descript 3.2 is now available! Here’s what’s new.

In this post, we introduce MelGAN, a new generative model of raw audio waveforms created by the Lyrebird team that is capable of generating natural sounding speech at a rate of more than 2,500,000 audio samples per second — more than 100x faster than real time, and 10x faster than alternative methods on similar hardware.We believe that MelGAN paves the way for taking many real-time speech applications onto smaller devices. Imagine, for example, in the not too distant future, having real-time text-to-speech translation on your mobile device without the internet. And, it’s application to music translation brings us one step closer to AI-assisted music composing.We’ve open sourced MelGAN and we encourage interested machine learning developers and researchers to check out our code base.

Descript 3.1 is now available. Here’s what’s new:

I’m Andy, Descript’s Head of Content — and a total radio novice. I’m chronicling my journey to get better at podcasting. In this episode, I share how I’ve transformed my on-mic voice from a weird android robot into a living breathing human being, with some sage advice from the professionals for learning how to sound natural on the microphone.Many of the things that helped me along the way are from radio veteran Marianne McCune who you might know from NPR’s Rough Translation. So, thank you, Marianne.