Speakers overview

At its simplest, a Speaker is just a name in your transcript to label speech audio. In Descript, your Speaker can also have an assigned voice and avatar, too.

• A label on its own is like a name tag. It indicates who’s talking throughout the transcript.
• A label with + assigned voice can generate speech with one of Descript’s stock voices or a custom voice clone.
• A label + an avatar puts a presenter on screen.

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Project Speakers and drive Speakers

Speakers exist at two levels:

• Project Speakers exist in the project where you created them.
• Drive Speakers are custom voice clones. Reuse them across projects, and share them with other drive members. They live in the AI speakers tab in Drive view, along with any speakers other members have shared with you.

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Edit a project Speaker

Open a Speaker label in your script, then click Edit speaker beside the Speaker’s row. Use the card to change the name, label color, voice, or avatar, then click Save. These changes apply to the project Speaker. For assignment, replacement, and voice-removal steps, see Add and manage Speaker labels.

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Working with Speakers