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Descript is currently down - official outage reported - 568ms HTTP response. Last checked . 90-day uptime: 99.9%.
AI Speech failing for some users
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90-day uptime
99.9%
20 incidents (90d)
Response now
568ms
HTTP p50 (7d)
706ms
median ping response
HTTP p95 (7d)
2012ms
tail ping response
Response time (7 days)
p50 706ms·p95 2012msⓘ HTTP response times from Tickerr's monitoring server to Descript's status or homepage endpoint - not API inference latency or time-to-first-token (TTFT). For API benchmark data, see third-party sources like Artificial Analysis.
90-day uptime
Incident history
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with Underlord. At this time, API requests to Underlord agent may fail, and prompts sent to the Underlord agent in-app may fail with an error. We're wo…
Status: Monitoring Functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the system continues to be operational. Affected components Recorder (Degraded performance)
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem preventing hosts and guests from joining Rooms sessions, and we are currently investigating Affected components Rooms (Full outage)
Status: Monitoring Functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the system continues to be operational. Affected components Rooms (Full outage)
Status: Investigating We are investigating an issue where publishing fails. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information. Affected components Integrations (Partial…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem causing some publishes to fail and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Descript web links (Degraded performance) Integrations (…
Status: Investigating When applying Create Clips, some users are receiving an error message that inaccurately states that the feature needs spoken content, even in compositions with enough dialogue. W…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with the main website and are investigating the underlying issue. At this time, web.descript.com "web.descript.com": http://web.descript.com appears to…
Status: Investigating We have detected an issue with Speaker Detection and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Transcription (Partial outage)
Status: Investigating Some users have reported that captions and text elements are not rendering correctly and when exported. This may appear as a black box. We are actively investigating this issue a…
Status: Investigating We have detected an issue where some users are encountering 400 errors when chatting with Agent Underlord. These errors appear to be intermittent and are occurring with multiple …
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with connecting to the MCP and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components MCP connector (Degraded performance)
Status: Investigating Stock media is unavailable due to an upstream provider’s scheduled maintenance. Full functionality should return once maintenance has completed
Status: Investigating We are currently aware of an issue where the play button spins after being clicked, causing delays in the playback of content. The team is currently investigating. Affected compo…
Status: Investigating Some users are seeing that attempts to generate AI Speech are failing (including text-to-speech with stock voices). We are currently investigating the root cause and are working …
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Agent (Full outage)
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem that prevents some users from connecting to Rooms sessions. We have traced this back to a current Cloudflare outage, and will update as soon as possibl…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Transcription (Full outage)
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with instability when starting recordings. At this time, it primarily seems to affect users who record from the Desktop application. The team is curren…
Status: Investigating We have detected an issue with publishing from Descript. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information. In the meantime as a workaround, we re…
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Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editing tool that includes transcription, overdub, and AI editing features. When Descript is down, project editing and AI processing are unavailable. Descript uses AWS infrastructure.
You can also check the official Descript status page.