Case Study: Descript achieves up to 95% automated transcription accuracy with Google Cloud Platform

Descript Unparalleled accuracy for automated transcription

Descript, the world’s first audio word processor that lets users edit audio by editing text, needed more accurate, fast, and secure automated transcription to serve journalists, podcasters, legal teams and other customers who previously relied on human transcribers and engineers.

By switching to Google Cloud Speech and using Google Cloud Storage for uploads, Descript reached up to 95% word accuracy (human threshold), delivers transcripts in under five minutes, improves content security and privacy, and unlocked new product features—benchmarking showed it makes roughly half as many errors as the next-best option.

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Steve Rubin

Software Engineer