Image, Video & Voice Generation
Descript
Medium riskAI audio and video editor with transcription, overdub voice cloning, and studio-quality enhancement, popular for podcasts and internal recordings.
Is Descript safe for confidential data?
Descript ingests recordings — which means everyone on the recording, not just the account holder. Meetings, interviews, and internal briefings uploaded for editing carry third-party voices and confidential discussion into Descript's cloud, where transcripts persist alongside media. Its Overdub voice cloning adds consent obligations of its own. The account-level controls are reasonable; the risk is what employees choose to upload and whether anyone else knows the recording exists there.
Risk by plan
The same product often carries very different terms depending on the tier — consumer plans are where the exposure concentrates.
Personal workspaces holding company recordings; sharing links unmanaged.
SSO, centralized workspaces, negotiable data terms; confirm product-improvement exclusions in contract.
Data handling
Training on inputs
Descript's privacy policy permits using projects to analyze and improve the service, with a 'Share Data with Descript' setting to opt out; voice-clone training uses the enrolled speaker's consented recordings. Enterprise terms can further restrict product-improvement use.
Retention
Projects, media, and transcripts persist in the workspace until deleted; shared links can expose recordings beyond the workspace.
Residency
U.S. cloud infrastructure; no customer-selectable residency.
Compliance
- SOC 2Yes
- GDPR / DPAConditional
- HIPAA BAANo
Certifications typically apply to specific tiers and contracts — confirm scope in writing before relying on them.
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Enterprise controls
- SSO (Business/Enterprise)
- Workspace admin and membership controls
- Consent-based voice-clone enrollment
- Link-sharing management
Frequently asked questions
Does Descript use my recordings to improve its AI?
Its policies permit service-improvement use, and voice cloning trains on the enrolled speaker's consented samples. Enterprise contracts can restrict improvement use — get that in writing if recordings contain client or patient conversations.
Whose consent do we need before uploading a recording?
Everyone on it, in many jurisdictions — uploading a client call to a third-party AI editor is a disclosure. Pair recording-consent practice with a rule about which tools recordings may enter.
How do we find out what's already been uploaded?
Ask, then verify: check SSO app grants, expense reports, and browser activity for AI editors. Sanitized AI's discovery inventories AI destinations in use, including audio and video tools, so the answer stops being anecdotal.
Policy changelog
- Initial entry published from Descript's published policies.
Sources
This profile summarizes the vendor's published policies as of the verification date. It is not legal advice.
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