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Kevin William David

Spext 2.0 - Edit voice recording by editing its transcript

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Spext 2.0 is all in one platform for voice recordings - automatic transcription, fast and easy editing and repurposing.

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Ryan Hoover
Congrats on the release, @_anupg. I have to ask: How does this compare to @andrewmason's Descript?
Anup Gosavi
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks Ryan! Descript is awesome and we get that question quite a lot :) We are targeting a different kind of user/ workflow. Most of our users are indie media creators and marketing teams who want to repurpose their content into clips, blogs, tweets etc. Editing is a small step in the entire workflow of repurposing the voice recording to making it accessible for a broader audience. So, we have built a very different web based UX for quick editing, not superfine control that doesn't require any installation.
Anup Gosavi
Maker
Thanks Kevin for hunting us! Almost a year back, we shipped an early version of Spext that got a lot of great feedback. One of the biggest requests was the ability to edit media by editing its transcripts. Turns out, it is extremely hard to make this work on the web :P Spext is perfect for people who have a lot of voice content like interviews, podcasts, speeches, lectures etc and quickly want to make it useful - share clips, convert it to blogs or republish a video conversation as a podcast. If you need finer edits, you can export it to more professional softwares like Adobe Audition or Final Cut Pro. Try it and let us know what you think :)
Turner Novak
Really cool product. Are you able to share any details on how exactly the "editing via word processor" process works? Also curious, do you lose any audio quality when editing this way vs using a traditional audio workstation like Adobe Audition?
Ashutosh
Maker
@turnernovak Thank you :) We provide text as an interface to the speech in the media by matching words and sounds. There is no loss of quality as such. Final output is applied on the original media uploaded by the user. It is also possible to export your edits to Adobe Audition and do rest of the work there. These exports are non destructive. Would you like to give a try? Let me know when you do.
Turner Novak
@ashu_trv Very cool. I'm not currently working on anything that requires me to edit audio, but am definitely keeping Spext in mind for the next time that I do!
Akshit Agarwal

I really like the Spext feature of detecting silence in audio by which I can edit my podcast files very easily.

Pros:

Detects Silence; Simple use of copy paste feature

Cons:

A bit slow compared to Descript

Ashutosh
Maker
Thanks Kevin! After being in alpha for last 5 months. We are finally ready. Learned a lot with our early customers and adopters. We wanted to be primarily on web (avoid downloads ) with speed and intuitive interface. Podcasters to marketers, It is definitely going to help them in producing more voice content faster.
Krishna De
@_anupg can you share a link to your pricing page as I can not see it at https://www.spext.co/ - I am on Firefox and just see a link to try it for free - thanks
Ashutosh
Maker
@krishnade Currently we only support chrome browser for using the app. You should be able to see the pricing when scroll down.
Krishna De
@ashu_trv Thanks for confirming - you might want to add a notification to your site to tell people using different browsers that they need to access via Chrome
cart adviser

very useful for a wide range of businesses.

Pros:

cost effective nd easy to use.

Cons:

can be faster.