Sonix

Sonix transcribes audio automatically and then lets you edit the transcript directly, with the underlying audio adjusting to match your text edits, a workflow that's become popular for people who find waveform editing tedious or intimidating.

It suits interview and narrative podcasters who want to remove filler words, false starts, or entire tangents by simply deleting text, rather than hunting for the exact waveform position by ear.

Accuracy depends heavily on audio quality and how much people talk over each other, crosstalk heavy conversations need real cleanup in the transcript before the text based cuts will sound clean.

It's a genuinely different way to edit that some people find far faster once they adjust to it, though pure sound design, music beds, and precise timing work still need a traditional DAW alongside it.