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Fix Word Alignment Issues in Descript

Published 6 months ago • 1 min read

Happy Thursday!

My latest in-depth Descript tutorial shows you all the ways you can identify and fix word mis-alignment in Descript.

I've seen this question way too many times (almost daily) in the Descript communities: How do I fix words that are not aligned with audio?

Whether it's a failure of the transcription AI, the audio quality wasn't the best or there's crosstalk, mis-aligned words are a pain, particularly when you absolutely must have your transcript perfect!

In today's guide, I provide solutions for this common problem.

I explain how the transcription engine sometimes mismatches the transcribed words and the audio waveform, resulting in missing words or unsynchronised words and audio.

I explain three different methods to correct this problem, discussing:

  • how to use Descript’s automatic alignment feature
  • how to manually add missing words
  • how to accurately align specific words to their audio manually.

Learn alongside me as I correct an actual podcast episode, specially shared for this purpose by Matty Dalrymple from The Indy Author Podcast.

Thank you for being here!

Why learn with me?

I've been coaching more than 100 students one-on-one so far in how to use Descript's new version and I can confidently and clearly walk you through all of these features so you can master editing in Descript.


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Cristi Cotovan aka Graphicious

I'm a video editor, content creator, YouTuber, passionate about Camtasia, Descript and lots of other software that helps me create great videos for myself and my clients. Thank you for joining me.

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