Guides
Step-by-step help for getting useful text out of your recordings: better meeting notes, searchable interviews, podcast show notes, lecture notes, captions, and transcripts people can actually read.
How to Transcribe Meeting Notes (and Actually Use Them)
You leave a meeting with three action items in your head, two more in a chat thread, and a vague feeling that someone agreed to something important in the…
How to Transcribe Interviews for Research, Journalism, and Hiring
An interview is only as useful as its record. The moment the conversation ends, the exact words start to fade — and with them, the phrasing that tells you…
How to Transcribe a Podcast (and Turn One Episode Into a Week of Content)
A podcast episode takes hours to record and minutes to forget. Listeners hear it once, while driving or washing dishes, and the ideas in it vanish into…
How to Transcribe Lectures (and Study From the Transcript)
A lecture is an hour of information delivered once, at speaking speed, while you are also trying to write it down. Something always gets lost: the example…
Voice Memos to Text: Turn Spoken Ideas Into Notes You Can Use
The best ideas arrive at the worst times: in the car, on a walk, in the shower, at 2 a.m. You reach for your phone, record a thirty-second voice memo, and…
How to Add Subtitles to a Video (SRT, VTT, and Burned-In Captions)
Most people watch video with the sound off. They watch on a train, in a waiting room, in bed next to someone sleeping — and if a video has no subtitles,…
Audio Transcription and Accessibility: Captions, Transcripts, and the Law
Accessibility is not a feature you add at the end. It is the question of whether people can use what you made at all. For audio and video, the answer…
Transcription Accuracy: What Affects It and How to Get the Best Result
"How accurate is it?" is the first question everyone asks about transcription, and the honest answer is: it depends. On clear, well-recorded speech,…
Is Audio Transcription Private? Consent, Storage, and What Happens to Your Recordings
You are about to upload a recording of a meeting, an interview, or a therapy session to a website, and a reasonable question stops you: who will hear…
Podcast SEO: How Transcripts Help New Listeners Find Your Show
Podcast apps are closed rooms. People find shows by browsing charts, by recommendations, and by word of mouth — and a new show, with no chart position and…