Descript incident

Transcription Outage

Resolved after 2 hours 1 minute, affecting Transcription, on April 16, 2026.

identified Apr 16, 2026, 06:50 PM UTC

We have identified that the root cause of the issue is with one of our transcription pipelines and have routed transcription to different providers until a full resolution is in place.

Started
Apr 16, 2026, 06:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 16, 2026, 08:19 PM UTC
Duration
2h 1m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 16, 2026, 06:18 PM UTC

Affected components

Transcription

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 16, 2026, 06:18 PM UTC

    We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue.

  2. identified Apr 16, 2026, 06:50 PM UTC

    We have identified that the root cause of the issue is with one of our transcription pipelines and have routed transcription to different providers until a full resolution is in place.

  3. resolved Apr 16, 2026, 08:19 PM UTC

    This issue is now resolved.

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