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Hi! I’m Sam, lead designer of Shasta. You can check out the app at https://shasta.adobe.com (OP's post links to one of our launch announcement pages). Our enhance speech and mic check features are already available for everyone to try.

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You have a very neat website (https://sam.design). Learned something new today.

Oh hey thanks!

Have you seen Whisper by OpenAI that was discussed recently [0]? The quality is extremely good for transcription and even translation, wondering if your team could use it as it's also open source.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927360

Is the plan for this to be only an editor for podcasts or is there a plan to also serve the podcast through this platform? (i for example almost never listen to podcasts but would sometimes just enjoy reading transcripts...)

We’ve been focusing on Shasta as a place to record and edit all kinds of spoken audio, including podcasts. As far as hosting and platform stuff, still figuring that out. But yeah, transcripts are great!

Thanks for being available here. I used to beta test for Audition and am your target customer for this so I look forward to seeing this.

Thank you for stopping by and the link. I signed up for access using the OP’s link. Is that no longer required?

Sorry for the confusion! Applying for access is still required to access Shasta, our recording + editing app. We’ve been slowly ramping up in getting people access to it… working hard on making sure it’s a super smooth experience.

Buuuut in the meantime, we launched two of our AI features as standalone mini apps that anyone can use for free, and those are called Mic Check and Enhance Speech. They’re fun, try them out and let me know what you think.

They both require me to sign in.

They only require a free account, no subscription necessary.

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