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What AI models does Descript use?

Descript runs on ChatGPT (OpenAI), In-house speech models (Descript), Underlord (Descript) and Undisclosed frontier LLM (Provider undisclosed), and routes requests between them.

Models used
4
Primary model
ChatGPT
Public API
Yes
Last checked
2026-09-12

Model claims are labelled by how we know them: ChatGPT — disclosed, In-house speech models — disclosed, Underlord — disclosed and Undisclosed frontier LLM — unknown. "Disclosed" means the vendor says so in public; "inferred" means it was derived from documentation, headers or release notes.

Context window: Not published.

Other stack signals: Node.js.

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