Thank you for sharing how to get to Correct Text mode! This is the only feature we use for our projects (outside of automatic transcription). It's hard to believe they hid such an important feature and made their new solution much less user friendly.

Andrew, honestly Descript just shot itself in the foot with these changes. Simple things work, no need to reinvent the wheel or fix what's not broken. I almost missed a delivery with a client because of this, and until this is restored I'll have to work with Otter. This fix is urgent, no one is liking this update and people don't care about overdub, videos, or other gimmicks, the transcripts are the staple for 90% of users and shouldn't be messed about like this. Get the team on this asap, thanks.

UPDATE: You can actually edit like before if you press ctrl+ alt+ e (on PC), the edges of the transcript will turn green, and if you leave them like this it means that you can operate like before, editing the transcript without affecting the audio and without having to go through multiple keystrokes. I mean, impossible to find out unless someone tells you, and even when you switch nothing tells you that you're in correct text mode apart from the green edges that are barely noticeable. I mean come on.

I used the new controls for the first time the other day. I needed to add in some text that got missed by the transcription. After doing this it threw off the timing of the captions and made them unusable.

The "Toggle Correct Text" option still does not help me. I am revising a seminar and I need to be able to edit the text (and have it not affect the video) and there are times when I need to edit the text (and do have it affect the video). Going back and forth this way is very difficult by having to go into Edit > Toggle Correct Text. Otherwise I will have to go through the 9 hour seminar in Descript, fix the transcription errors and then export it, go through the seminar again in a word document and make the additional changes I would like to make. I LOVED the ctrl + E option to easily toggle back and forth between media and text. Editing was so much easier with this feature.

UPDATE:

I did find out that if you keep it in the "Toggle Correct Text" mode and you need to edit the media, you can still do this in the audio timeline. For example, to delete a word that will also delete the word from the video, I just highlight the word in the audio track and hit the "delete" button and it deletes the word from the audio track as well as the transcript.

Correct Text mode is still in Descript, and is available from the Edit Menu:

Edit > Toggle Correct Text

Keyboard shortcut on mac is option + command + E. On PC, control + alt + E.