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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Descript with Andrew Mason
Description: Descript is a software product for editing podcasts and video.Descript is a deceptively powerful tool, and its software architecture includes novel usage of transcription APIs, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and other domain-specific machine learning applications. Some of the most popular podcasts and YouTube channels use Descript as their editing tool because it provides a set of features that are not found in other editing tools such as Adobe Premiere or a digital audio workstation.Descript is an example of the downstream impact of machine learning tools becoming more accessible. Even though the company only has a...