# Descript — developer ecosystem report

- GitHub org: `descriptinc`
- Category: ai
- Overall score: 36.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #583
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-21

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 41.0 | #703 | ~22% |
| Education | 73.0 | #285 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 16.0 | #662 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 30.0 | #513 | ~16% |
| Reach | 40.0 | #499 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 18.0 | #662 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/descriptinc
- Website: https://www.descript.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 3,975 |
| Forks | 573 |
| Open issues | 345 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [descript-audio-codec](https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec) | 1,844 | Python | State-of-the-art audio codec with 90x compression factor. Supports 44.1kHz, 24kHz, and 16kHz mono/stereo audio. |
| [melgan-neurips](https://github.com/descriptinc/melgan-neurips) | 1,040 | Python | GAN-based Mel-Spectrogram Inversion Network for Text-to-Speech Synthesis |
| [lyrebird-wav2clip](https://github.com/descriptinc/lyrebird-wav2clip) | 360 | Python | Official implementation of the paper WAV2CLIP: LEARNING ROBUST AUDIO REPRESENTATIONS FROM CLIP |
| [audiotools](https://github.com/descriptinc/audiotools) | 351 | Python | Object-oriented handling of audio data, with GPU-powered augmentations, and more. |
| [cargan](https://github.com/descriptinc/cargan) | 193 | Python | Official repository for the paper "Chunked Autoregressive GAN for Conditional Waveform Synthesis" |
| [web-audio-js](https://github.com/descriptinc/web-audio-js) | 68 | JavaScript | Pure JS implementation of the Web Audio API |
| [ffmpeg-ffprobe-static](https://github.com/descriptinc/ffmpeg-ffprobe-static) | 28 | JavaScript | ffmpeg/ffprobe static binaries for Mac OSX and Linux and Windows |
| [skills](https://github.com/descriptinc/skills) | 13 | — | skillz |
| [dependicus](https://github.com/descriptinc/dependicus) | 11 | TypeScript | Dependency governance for monorepos. Tickets, not PRs. Fancy dashboards and a plugin system. |
| [gentle](https://github.com/descriptinc/gentle) | 11 | Python | gentle forced aligner |
| [ATS](https://github.com/descriptinc/ATS) | 7 | — | — |
| [Kali](https://github.com/descriptinc/Kali) | 7 | TypeScript | Time stretching and pitch shifting in Javascript |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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