I had to do a lot of manual transcription in Journalism school. Using a tool like Descript saved HOURS of my life. Generally it was 80% accurate, but going over an two-hour-long recording again at 3x speed while reading over the transcript, fixing errors from memory or pausing took a five hour job down to 30-40 minutes. Either way, somebody is going to have to listen to the recording. This just removes a layer of grunt work.