Recordings made outside of professional-grade recording studios may contain varying degrees of background noise or unwanted sounds. Maybe there’s an air conditioner in the background or line-level fuzz from your recording interface.
Descript's Room Tone feature uses AI to automatically detect room tone in any given recording of speech then generates a similar tone profile. Need to add more space between two sentences or paper over an edit without jarring silence? Room Tone will seamlessly fill in the gap.
Preparing your file
When enabled, Room Tone automatically analyzes the first 30 seconds of a media file for non-speech audio to create a sound profile. In order to assure best results, we recommend:
- Recording Silence - Record at least 15 seconds of silence before speaking so that Room Tone is able to create an accurate profile.
- Removing music - If you're importing a pre-recorded file you will want to assure that your recording does not contain music during the first 30 seconds of the track as this will degrade the quality of the Room Tone audio.
Using Room Tone
To add a gap clip, simply click and drag a word in the Wordbar wherever you’d like to create some space.
You can also right-click on the clip and select "Insert gap clip." Room Tone will take care of the rest!
Managing Room Tone Settings
You can manage Room Tone settings / defaults on the App level, Project-level, and Track-level.
App Level
To manage Room Tone at a global level across all your Projects, open your Descript preferences by clicking Descript > Preferences from the toolbar and toggling the "Add Room Tone to New Gap Clips" button to enable or disable room tone for new Projects in your drive.
Project Level
To manage Room Tone at a Project level, click on the 'D' Descript icon in the top-left corner of the app then select Project settings.
Then toggle the "Add Room Tone to New Gap Clips" button to enable or disable room tone for your Project. You can also set this as the default for future Projects.
Clip Level
To manage Room Tone settings for a specific gap clip, select the clip in the Timeline, then open the Clip Inspector. Click the "Room Tone" toggle to enable or disable for the clip.
Disabling Room Tone at a Project level
When disabling Room Tone at a project level, a pop-up will appear asking
to confirm whether or not you wish to modify existing Gap Clips with Room Tone.
Selecting Disable will remove all existing Gap Clips with
Room Tone.
