Automatic Speaker Detection

Descript will automatically run speaker detection on transcribed files transcribed in Descript. Simply import your file and rename the speaker labels in your script.

If Always ask before detecting speakers is enabled, just select the number of speakers and let the AI work while you focus on more important tasks. Once it's done, fill in the labels for each identified speaker, and you're set. Descript applies the speaker labels automatically across your composition.

You can turn on Always ask before detecting speakers in your settings.

1. click on your profile in the top right corner. 
2. Choose Settings.
3. Be sure you are in the General section. 
4. Toggle the Always ask before detecting speakers option. 
   

Using Speaker Detection

1. Initiate an automatic transcription for a file or files; a transcription confirmation window will appear.
2. Select the number of speakers in the file, or click Unsure, to initiate Speaker Detection. Speaker Detection will run as your file is automatically transcribed. Typically, a 60-minute file takes 2–3 minutes, but a notification will alert you when it’s done.
3. When the notification appears, click Identify speakers.
4. When prompted, click the Get started button and then listen through the audio prompts to identify who’s speaking.
5. Add the speaker's name, or select an existing name from the list.
   • If you are adding a new speaker be sure to click Add "(speaker name)" as speaker before clicking Next.
     
6. When you’ve listened to all of the audio samples, click Close and the Speaker labels will appear in your transcript.

Your speakers are now labeled. Once you add speaker labels, Descript will remember them and apply them intelligently even as you cut, copy, and paste among compositions.

How to initiate speaker detection after transcribing a file

If you didn't identify speakers when initially transcribing your file, don’t worry: you can still do it afterward from the Project panel.

1. Open the Project panel and make sure you're looking at the Files section.
2. Click the ellipsis button next to the file.
3. Select Detect speakers.
4. Select the number of speakers in your file, or click Unsure. Speaker Detection will then start to run.