Comment by CGMthrowaway

I started in music but have since edited thousands of hours of podcasts. I cannot transcribe a track by looking at the waveform, except the word "um" haha. But without playing the audio I can tell you where words start and end, whether a peak is a B or a T or an A or an I sound... And melodyne can add layers to that and tell me the pitch, formants (vowels), quantize the syllables etc. If I can do all this, a computer ought to be able to do the same and more