How Descript's generative AI makes video editing as easy as updating text

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. A podcaster steps up to a mic to do a review of a new chicken nugget brand. As he begins talking and recording himself on his laptop, real-time speech-to-text transcribes his comments: "So these nuggets are, um, made from chicken, but they're made to um, um, um, um, emulate the taste of, like, like, non chicken nuggets." That doesn't sound very professional; on his screen, he strikes through those filler words -- and while he's at it, boosts the podcast's sound quality before publishing it for his audience. This is one use case for audio-video editing tool Descript, which today announced a significant product update and a $50 million series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund. "The whole concept of Descript -- editing video like a doc -- is only possible because of AI [artificial intelligence]," said Jay LeBoeuf, Descript's head of business and corporate development.