PaperCuts vs Otter.ai: which fits a documentary interview workflow?

Both produce searchable multi-speaker transcripts and export in multiple formats. The divergence is in what comes after: Trint has no beat sheet or paper cut assembly; PaperCuts has no NLE-style video scrubbing.

Descript's text-based timeline editing and a spreadsheet paper cut both start from transcript text, but serve different moments in the workflow. Descript is a nonlinear editing environment; a paper cut is a plan.

An honest comparison of the four speech-to-text providers most documentary editors actually use, scored on accent handling, diarization, latency, and cost per hour of audio.