Descript Rooms Settings

Tune your audio, video, and session preferences for a Room.

Access Room settings

Click your profile image in the upper-right corner to access the Settings menu. This menu is available both before joining and during your Room session.

Accessing the Room settings menu in Descript

General settings

Setting	Description
Theme	Adjust your theme (system, light, or dark mode).
Chat notifications	Choose when to see chat notifications: only when chat is closed, always, or never.
Participant waiting room	Manually admit participants or allow them to join automatically. Learn more about approving join requests.
Automatically admit with role	When auto-admit is enabled, set the role of participants who join automatically. Learn more about roles in Descript Rooms.
Producer chime	Toggle a sound notification when a Producer is speaking.
Default emoji skin tone	Set the default skin tone for emojis used in chat.

Audio settings

Setting	Description
Echo cancellation	Helps reduce crosstalk and mic bleed. Recommended only if you’re not using headphones.
Background noise reduction	Off by default; filters distracting sounds.
Auto gain control	Automatically adjusts microphone gain.
Recording quality	- Auto (high quality): Records at 48kHz and adjusts playback based on connection. - Generate lossless audio files: When enabled, creates a separate WAV file per participant. Lossless recording is only supported in Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome and Edge.

For additional information about audio file formats, see our in-depth blog post here.

Video settings

Setting	Description
Aspect ratio	Choose 1:1 (square) or 16:9 (landscape) layout.
Frame up your shot	Use grid or silhouette overlays to center your shot—or disable overlays entirely.
Recording quality	Records at up to 4K if supported by your camera. Uses the highest resolution available.
Room call quality	- Auto (Recommended): Adjusts dynamically to maintain the highest quality based on your network. - Bandwidth saver: Disables incoming video to preserve bandwidth. Useful on slow connections.

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