I agree 100% with this essay. I’ve been transcribing music manually for just over 20 years, and I’ve dabbled with automatic transcription products and algorithm

I agree 100% with this essay. I’ve been transcribing music manually for just over 20 years, and I’ve dabbled with automatic transcription products and algorithms. A few months ago, I attended my first ISMIR conference (the mostly academic community of researchers working on these problems). With that background, I’ve come to believe automatic transcription is still so far from good that we’re better off creating tools that make it easier for humans to transcribe. That’s our philosophy behind Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/transcribe/ https://www.soundslice.com/transcribe/), which combines a music notation editor with transcription tools. For anybody interested in transcribing music, I encourage you to give it a try.