Groupon founder’s new app Descript edits audio files directly from text
Andrew Mason, the co-founder and former CEO of Groupon whose most recent company produced audio-guided city walking tours, has moved on to his next start up – and it involves more audio technology.
Mason’s new app Descript is supposed to allow audio editors to make changes to an audio file simply by editing the text transcription of that audio file. The idea, he says, is to offer anyone editing audio files, whether podcasters, journalists, or musicians, the ability to edit single-track audio clips as easily as they would edit words in a word processing document. Descript was initially built as an in-house production tool for Detour, Mason’s walking-tour app, and is now being spun out as its own company.
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