How to Clean Descript Captions Without Choppy Audio (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: If you cut every single um and uh, your video sounds terrible.
[00:00:04] Speaker 2: Cutting out the every time I watch the recordings it feels like this abrupt.
[00:00:07] Speaker 1: If you leave them all in, your captions look terrible. Let me show you how to get clean captions in Descript without removing every single filler word. Go to AI tools, click on remove filler words, pick the ones you want gone like um, uh, and even repeated words. Then change the setting from delete to remove from transcript. And that's it. Now you've got natural, authentic sounding audio and clean captions. Um, like how great is that? I'm Katie, a video editor at Descript. If there's something you want to learn how to do better or faster in Descript, let us know in the comments and we'll make you a short.
- Cutting every filler word can make spoken audio sound choppy and unnatural.
- Leaving filler words in can clutter captions and reduce readability.
- In Descript, use AI Tools → Remove filler words to target ums, uhs, and repeated words.
- Switch the setting from deleting to removing from transcript to keep the audio intact.
- This approach yields natural-sounding audio with cleaner captions.