Descript’s Regenerate tool can smooth out rough edits, awkward cuts, and distracting sounds. It analyzes the surrounding context to generate cleaner, more natural audio—making it easy to heal transitions and polish untidy moments in your media, all without re-recording.

How to use Regenerate

1. Play through your project and find the part you'd like to fix—this could be a choppy transition, an abrupt cut, or a distracting sound. Edit points appear as stacked vertical dashes in the script.
   
   
2. Select a few words around the area you want to smooth out. If you're not sure what to select, try starting just before and ending just after the edit point.
   
   
3. Click Regenerate from the selection toolbar.
   • If you are not making changes to the words already in your script: Descript will regenerate the audio to smooth things out. This is helpful for healing transitions, fixing pacing, or removing distracting sounds.
   • If you are making changes to the script: this requires using an AI Speaker, since you're generating new content. If the speaker in your underlying media hasn’t created an AI voice in Descript, you’ll be prompted to create a new AI Speaker. For full steps on this workflow, see Using Regenerate to edit or change recorded audio.
     
     
4. While the text pulses, Descript is processing and regenerating the audio for that section.
   
   
5. Hover over the regenerated clip to preview it or take further action:
   • Play – Listen to the regenerated audio.
   • Regenerate – Try a different variation.
   • Keep – Accept the result and convert it to an audio clip so you can crossfade or adjust word gaps.
   • Restore – Revert to the original audio.

Tip: Regenerate from edit points

Hover over a vertical dashed line in the script, then click the Regenerate icon (looks like a band aid) to fix that edit automatically.

Other use cases

• Remove sudden sounds – Delete a bark, honk, or other distracting noise. For background noise or consistent quality issues, try Studio Sound instead.
• Fix delivery – Regenerate can polish up moments where the speaker sounds monotone, trails off, or doesn’t land quite right. It’s a helpful way to adjust tone or pacing without re-recording.

Feature limitations

You won’t be able to regenerate if:

• The selection includes:
  • Multiple edit points
  • A scene boundary
  • Ignored text
• You edited the script and don’t have access to the speaker’s AI voice.
• You’re trying to regenerate an already regenerated clip—click Keep to convert it, then you can regenerate again.