Podcast editors: turn a transcript into a rough cut

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Scanning a transcript for the best moment in an hour-long recording is dramatically faster than scrubbing through audio — you're reading, not listening, until you find it.

Once you've found the line, the timestamp takes you straight there — mark the in and out points in your recording, and you've got your cold open.

This is the workflow the timestamped transcript view is actually built around: read fast, then listen precisely.