Welcome to the Paraphrase blog

Paraphrase edits your voice like text. You record or upload into a project, every word comes back with a timestamp, and you edit the recording by editing the transcript. Delete a word and its audio goes with it. Drag a word and its audio moves. Press one button and the cleanup proposes the take you meant to record, with the filler, false starts and repeated points taken out, for you to review word by word.

What you export is your original recording with pieces cut out. That is the whole idea, and it shapes everything else.

What Paraphrase does

• Record, upload or paste a link. Record in the browser (saved as you go), upload audio or video, or paste a link and let the server fetch it.
• A transcript timed to every word, in 25 European languages, detected automatically.
• Edit by clicking. Click a word to cut it, shift-click to cut a run, drag to reorder, undo and redo. Cut words stay on screen struck through, so you can always see what the export leaves out.
• Clean up with AI. One button reads the transcript in context and proposes cuts. There is no word list: it judges each word by what it is doing in its sentence.
• Export WAV, FLAC, MP3, M4A or Opus, or MP4 when the project has video in it.

What it deliberately does not do

Paraphrase never generates speech. There is no AI voice, no voice cloning, no overdub and no text to speech. An edit is a list of positions in your own transcript, so a word you never said is not something it can produce.

It also does not try to be a full studio. There is no remote recording, no multitrack, no noise removal, no captions and no music. Plenty of good tools do those things, and we will say so when we compare them.

What this blog will cover

• Honest comparisons with the tools people already use, Descript, Riverside, Adobe Podcast and Audacity, including where they are the better choice.
• Pricing breakdowns that say what each tool costs, what sits behind its paywall and when the prices were checked.
• Guides to editing spoken audio by transcript.

Every competitor claim is checked against that competitor's own pages, and every Paraphrase claim against our own code. If something here is wrong, email help@phosphor.gg and we will correct it in a new post.

Try it

A new free account comes with fifteen minutes of transcription and three AI cleanups a day, with no card. Create one on paraphrase.bot, or see what Premium includes.