Mark C. Webster

After more than seven years, I’ve decided to bring my Adobe journey to a close. A few years after Adobe acquired @sayspring, I pitched the idea for Adobe Podcast. And since that first day, building this product and assembling the team behind it has been one of the highlights of my career. It’s been incredible to see the impact a small, talented group can have inside a large company. Collaborating with Adobe Research to productize and launch Enhance Speech was especially rewarding. We built most of our own tech stack, ran our own GTM, and even handled customer support. What started as a five-person effort grew into a scrappy 15-person team that delivered: Adobe Podcast – Current Performance • 1.1M monthly active users (last 30 days) Adobe Podcast – All-Time Impact • 12.9M total users • 108M exports What a ride. Learning Adobe and Macromedia tools 25 years ago shaped the entire trajectory of my career, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent this time here. I don’t have firm plans for what’s next, but I have a hunch there’s a third startup in me. Stay tuned…

@adxm246 💪

@halfkelly @deepvaluebettor Agreed. One of the things we discuss a lot is that we still have Audition/Premiere/Adobe Express for certain audio/video workflows, so we can offer a more opinionated product for a specific type of user than a sole product company can. We'll try and stay "easy to use" forever.

@markcwebster @deepvaluebettor Yeah I think one problem is that half of the comments in that Descript thread are actually saying it does *too* much. So finding the sweet spot for something that is inherently creative - and thus subject to personal taste -is going to be really hard.

The Goldilocks Era of AI open.substack.com/pub/riskofruin…

@halfkelly @deepvaluebettor Yeah, I hear you. It's a constant balance for us to find the sweet spot of being fast/easy to use vs being precise enough for certain folks. Appreciate you kicking the tires and sharing the feedback, thanks.

@markcwebster @deepvaluebettor Yeah the transcript editing is not finely tuned for my purposes. There are issues with: 1) mismatch of timestamp waveform, 2) handling of inaudible and filler words -- probably I could figure out a way to make it work better for my purposes... or I can just code my own.

@vioanchieta 🫡

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@halfkelly @deepvaluebettor Would love to hear more on your thoughts on Podcast. Do you mean technically editing just works ok in the product, or just that the concept of editing audio via transcript without the precision of waveforms is kinda meh?

@deepvaluebettor Maybe descript has gotten better, but the problems described in this thread are pretty sticky for the underlying problem. reddit.com/r/Descript/com… And for instance Adobe Podcast has similar functionality and still has this problem where editing the transcript just works ok...

@waren_barber237 🙏

« Un jour un barber » épisode 3 disponible demain 18h sur les plateformes de barber Mag237 . Merci de vous abonner Facebook Instagram tiktok : barber_mag237 Je viens de découvrir un nouvel outil Adobe podcast, pour les créateurs de contenu. Merci au génie qui a conçu ça.

@JonathanBobrow @Adobe Got it. Yeah, we'll get there eventually. There's just a bunch of stuff that customers are asking for more that we're focused on now. But we'll get there.

@markcwebster @Adobe Yes, multiple people in the same project file. And being able to share a project file such that another team mate has it in their projects or at least “projects shared with you”

Really impressed with @Adobe Podcast. It just so happened that I discovered it after their latest update last week, and the UX is really wonderful. My only request is a collaborative studio experience/team dashboard.

My Instagram is growing like crazy, bruh. All I’ve got is an iPhone, two rectangle lights, and Adobe Podcast. No $1000 mic. No expensive lights. Just vibes and consistency.

@Nicolas_Sa_ 🙏

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@CaseyAdams No problem, just DM me your email.

@markcwebster Hey Mark, I'd love to get access to this new feature. Is this still available? Thank you!

We’re working on adding support for editing video, not just audio, in Adobe Podcast. We have an invite-only early version ready for feedback. If you want to try it out, DM me your email address before the end of today and I’ll give you access.

@yo_tom_o @Galaxriel @evanlawrencex Great to hear that. Thanks! Just a matter of focus/priorities. More of our customers have issues with spoken audio vs music, so that's what we're working on now. But the plan is to keep expanding over time.

@markcwebster @Galaxriel @evanlawrencex Haha just looked at your profile! Nice man great product did me well with some random client I picked up 👌👌 cheers! Why not do one for singing? Seems like an obvious thing for Audition?

@yo_tom_o @Galaxriel @evanlawrencex Adobe Podcast AI is trained based on speech, won't really work well for singing. FWIW just a Macbook laptop mic or the standard iPhone mic in a quiet, non-echoey room is a surprisingly decent microphone. AirPods are pretty terrible for recording.

@Galaxriel @evanlawrencex I've been wondering if the Adobe podcast ai works for singing but had no reaps to test, sure there's one out their for it. Otherwise take the T-pain auto tune approach?

@OusmaneMakaveli (traduction automatique) Si vous êtes client Creative Cloud, vous bénéficiez d'un accès Premium à Adobe Podcast, rendez-vous simplement sur podcast.adobe.com

C’est anormal que Adobe Podcast ne soit pas inclus dans Creative Cloud.

@ZichenWanghere Yeah, we ran into a service outage. Looks like it's coming back online now, but will take a bit to ramp up.

adobe podcast enhance speech website is down

@MyEdTechLife @techmyschool @AdobeExpress @Adobe @cobbsclass @JoeSantiagoEDU @ClaudioZavalaJr @annkozma723 @TanyaAvrith @weziRthindwa @TeachBeyondPapr @TheTechProfe Excited to have you onboard!

I am excited to be a presenter and panelist at this year's @techmyschool Conference in Puerto Rico! I cannot wait to share the power of @AdobeExpress and @Adobe Podcast with amazing educators. Thank you, @cobbsclass, for this great opportunity! Thank you, @JoeSantiagoEDU, @benforta, and @HarmonyJiroudek, for all the support on the @AdobeExpress and @Adobe Podcast side! #MyEdTechLife #TechMySchool #AdobeEduCreative #AdobeExpress #AdobePodcast

Enhance Speech is some of the most impressive software @Adobe has ever released. Shocks me every time I use it how great of a job it does.

@nickcoffer No doubt!

@markcwebster Do I get a tiny bit of credit for this?!

If you have Adobe Podcast Premium, last night we launched a separate background slider, so you can adjust speech enhancement and bg noise individually. Try it out!