New in Descript: Transcription in 23 languages!

March 6, 2022

New in Descript: Transcription in 23 languages!

New in Descript: Transcription in 23 languages

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This makes the editing process so much faster. I wish I knew about Descript a year ago.
Matt D., Copywriter

What type of content do you primarily create?

Videos

Podcasts

Social media clips

Transcriptions

Today’s Descript release: we've added 22 new languages to automatic transcription.

Multi-language transcription

Descript creators have been asking for transcription in languages other than English for a long time — it was by far our most-requested updated.

And now it's here. Today we launched transcription support for 22 new languages.

You can now transcribe audio or video in:

Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Slovenian
Turkish

We’ve also launched support for Hindi, but only in the Beta app.

Our Help Center has more on how multi-language transcription works.

Introducing DescripTips

A new video series aimed at helping you work smarter and create better stuff. Check it out on our YouTube channel, look for new Tips every week — and subscribe! Lara will be sad if you don't.

Head of Content at Descript. Former Editor at Groupon, Chicago Sun-Times, and a bunch of other places. Dad. Book reader. Friend to many Matts.

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March 6, 2022

New in Descript: Transcription in 23 languages!

Head of Content at Descript. Former Editor at Groupon, Chicago Sun-Times, and a bunch of other places. Dad. Book reader. Friend to many Matts.

New in Descript: Native Apple Silicon support, multicam editing (early access)

Today’s Descript release: we've added 22 new languages to automatic transcription.

Backspace. Copy and paste. Drag and drop. That’s how you edit audio and video in Descript.

Edit audio and video just like editing a doc.

Multi-language transcription

Descript creators have been asking for transcription in languages other than English for a long time — it was by far our most-requested updated.

And now it's here. Today we launched transcription support for 22 new languages.

You can now transcribe audio or video in:

Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Slovenian
Turkish

We’ve also launched support for Hindi, but only in the Beta app.

Our Help Center has more on how multi-language transcription works.

Introducing DescripTips

A new video series aimed at helping you work smarter and create better stuff. Check it out on our YouTube channel, look for new Tips every week — and subscribe! Lara will be sad if you don't.

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