Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio, designed for the age of AI. They are a team of 150 with backing from top investors like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, fostering a quirky and collaborative culture.
Generative media synthesis: building the models behind features like Video Regenerate, lipsync, and video translation — photorealistic video and audio synthesis as production research, not demos.
Zero-shot voice and roomtone cloning: realistic cloning from only a few minutes of reference audio.
Multimodal understanding: vision-language systems that let Descript's agentic editing features reason over visual and audio content, plus the evals that balance quality against cost and latency.