Descript Overdub Tutorial: CLONE Your Voice with AI

In this Descript tutorial, I guide you through the process of creating, cloning and customizing your own AI voice in Descript. I start by creating a new AI speaker from scratch, submitting my training data and verification phrase. This will both verify and train the voice.
Then I create a new Descript project, add some text using the Write tool and generate speech with the newly created AI voice using Overdub. I cover key functionalities such as assigning the AI voice to text, generating speech, adding gaps, controlling the Overdub files/segments, converting dynamic overdubs into editable audio files.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Navigating Descript to Create an AI Speaker
00:55 Recording Your Verification Statement
02:25 Fine-Tuning and Submitting Your AI Voice
03:11 Testing and Sharing Your New AI Voice
03:54 Advanced Editing and Overdub Features
08:31 Converting Overdubs to Audio Files
10:08 Final Thoughts and Tips
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[@Graphicious]

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[@ChrisMenardTraining]

That was really cool..

[@Graphicious]

Thanks a lot!

[@Silvara45]

Hi Cristi! I'm trying to decide on a video editing tool as a beginner. Thanks for all the info. Super helpful! Quick question: I have a subscription to Elevenlabs and want to use AI generated voice recordings from this tool to narrate my videos. Can I insert these elevenlabs audio files into videos I edit on Descript OR do I have to use Descript generated audio files?

[@Graphicious]

You can use external audio (narration) in Descript and add it but it's quite difficult to sync it to existing footage. Descript makes it very difficult to stitch and match audio to existing footage AND footage to existing audio. I think it's because of the way scenes work - since Descript is mainly text-driven, everything you add has to be anchored in text somehow. Now they have scenes and whatnot, but effectively, it's all based on the transcript or the script track at the bottom. Therefore, it can be very hard to bring new audio and make it play at very precise points in the timeline where footage exists. It is also hard because you can't really see all the frames of the existing video in the timeline and again, syncing it to existing footage is hard. For what you describe, I would use Camtasia any day. And it's easy to learn too.

[@TheCreatorsCalendar]

Yes, this all works as stated . . . But, with the Creator plan they only have a vocabulary of 1000 words, all other words are filled with "Jibber," and "Jabber." This is VERY deceptive on Descripts part. They go on to state you must update to the Pro plan to make your cloned voice worth using. I find them deceptive in other ways as well.

[@Graphicious]

That’s correct, only the Pro plan allows full speech generation