After automatically transcribing your recording in Descript, you might see a few errors. Don’t worry, it’s an easy fix. On top of the power to edit video and audio like a doc, Descript gives you the ability to quickly correct your transcript without touching the underlying video or audio. Let’s dive in and get you a flawless transcript, step by step.
Descript's automatic transcription is up to 95% accurate. But occasionally, there may be a word or two that didn't get transcribed and appears as wordless media in the script. Fortunately, filling in the missed words is also super easy.
1. Quickly remove unwanted filler words
Maybe you left in some or all of your filler words for more natural-sounding audio, but you probably don’t want them in your captions or transcription. Descript makes it easy to quickly ensure that nobody will have to read all your “ums” and “uhs.”
To remove filler words:
- Open
Underlord in the sidebar and select
Remove filler words…
- Choose which filler words you want to search for.
- Playback the detected filler words if you want to hear them.
- Choose how you want the words removed:
- Delete: Removes the text and related video or audio.
- Ignore: Strikes through the text in your script and removes the related video or audio.
- Remove from Transcript: Descript will eliminate your filler words from the transcript only, keeping the audio or video intact.
- Choose Remove to extract your filler words one at a time, or Remove all to nuke them all at once.
2. Manually correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
Here’s how to correct the spelling of certain words, add in a word the transcription missed, or change a word’s capitalization or punctuation, without editing the actual video or audio.
You can fly through transcript correction using three critical keyboard shortcuts—Z, X, C. To change capitalization, click on a word and press Z; to change punctuation, click on a word and hit X—Descript will toggle between a period, comma, and no punctuation.
To manually correct spelling and other mistakes, follow these steps:
- Double-click or highlight the word or section you want to correct.
- Click Correct in the script toolbar, or press
C. - Type in your correction.
- Finalize your edit:
- Select Correct to update this specific instance.
- Choose Correct All to apply the correction to all instances of the word or phrase in your project.
After making a correction, you'll temporarily see the words underlined with a dotted gray line as Descript syncs up the transcript and audio.
Add or remove a max of 100 characters at once
After making a transcript correction, Descript will quickly re-scan the region to sync your corrected text to the corresponding script audio. To ensure your script media and transcript realign properly, you can only adjust a max of 100 characters at once.
Correct text mode
To make a bunch of different corrections throughout your script, go into Correct text mode by pressing Opt+C (Mac) or Alt+C (Windows). As you edit, corrected words will have a dotted underline in grey as Descript syncs up the transcript and audio.
Editing your transcript
If you need to change a word in your transcript and have it reflected in the video, simply follow these steps:
- Enter Correct text mode by pressing Opt+C (Mac) or Alt+C (Windows).
- Click on the word you want to change and type the new word. Your changes will be automatically saved.
- Any corrections you make to the transcript will also be reflected in the video captions, ensuring consistency across both text and video.
3. Export or continue creating
Now that you’re done polishing your transcript, you can export it as a document.
To export your transcript:
- Select Publish > Export > Transcript.
- Choose the file format and customize your export settings.
- Finish by clicking Export, or Copy to clipboard.
Of course, you can also continue working on your project and creating in Descript.
What else do you want to know? There are many more features and creative possibilities waiting for you.