A brief YouTube tutorial explaining that the dots in a Descript transcript represent "Wordless Media" (silent, non-speech segments that have no text). The video shows how to turn the dots off by opening Settings → Help & Feedback → Debug and toggling off “Show Wordless Media in script.”
If you're wondering what these dots are in your Descript project, that's called Wordless Media. So when you import your video or audio, Descript automatically transcribes it. It takes your speech and makes it into text. But if there's parts where there's silence, there's no speaking, no detectable words, it creates these dots to tell you that there's. There's nothing there to transcribe. So that's on by default. You can turn that off by coming up to your settings, going to help and feedback, going to debug, and then clicking on this thing that says show Wordless Media in script, and you're going to toggle that off. And now those dots are gone. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one next.
