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22 hours ago
Overdub cloned my voice then added a cough I never made
Descript
AI video and podcast editor with Overdub
Edited a 22-min founder interview in Descript last night on my M2. Text edit was fine — cut the ums, moved a paragraph, done.
Overdub though. I typed a one-line fix and it inserted this weird throat-clear that isnt in any of my samples. Regenerated the clone twice. Same cough.
Anyone else getting phantom audio after a clone refresh, or am I just bad at cleaning the training clip?
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Had the same on a docs walkthrough last week. Fixed it by re-recording ~45s of clean takes with zero room noise, then regenerating the clone from scratch. The old clone kept bleeding mouth clicks into every Overdub line.
Also check your training clip for HVAC hum — Descript seems to bake that into the voice model weirdly.
honest question: how much time does Overdub actually save vs just recording the line again?
we tried it for customer call snippets and activation tanked when the voice drift made people distrust the clip. long-form podcasts maybe. short clips? doubtful.