Text-based audio and video editor: edit recordings by editing the transcript, clean up sound, clone your voice, and dub content, with the Underlord AI assistant.
- Edit audio and video by editing the transcript
- Studio Sound and filler-word removal clean up recordings quickly
- Voice clones let you fix lines without re-recording
- Translation and dubbing in 30+ languages on Business
- Free plan exports are watermarked and capped at 720p
- Media hours and AI credits limit heavy dubbing or generation
- Not a standalone text-to-speech tool for script-only narration
Editing a recording by editing its transcript is the idea behind Descript, a desktop and web editor for podcasts, video, and screen recordings. Deleting a word in the text cuts it from the media, which makes rough cuts feel closer to editing a document than working on a timeline.
On top of transcription, Descript bundles an AI co-editor called Underlord and a set of AI tools such as Studio Sound for cleaning up noisy audio, Remove Filler Words, and Create Clips for social cutdowns. Paid plans include AI speech with voice clones, which helps patch a misspoken line without re-recording, and video regenerate. Creator adds 4K export, video generation with recent AI models, and an unlimited royalty-free stock library, while Business brings translation and dubbing in 30+ languages with proofreading, custom avatars, Brand Studio, and a transcription glossary.
Podcasters, YouTubers, course creators, and marketing teams who record talking-head content benefit most, since the transcript workflow removes much of the manual scrubbing. It is not a pure text-to-speech generator, so buyers who only need narration from scripts may prefer a dedicated voice tool. Limits are tied to media hours and AI credits: the Hobbyist tier provides 10 hours and 400 credits a month, the free plan exports watermarked 720p video with one hour of media, and heavy users of dubbing or generation will burn through credits faster than editing alone suggests.
