Transcription9 min read
No Transcript Button on a YouTube Video: What to Do
The transcript button goes missing for two very different reasons, and only one of them can be fixed by looking harder. Here is how to tell them apart and get the text.
Subtitles & Captions9 min read
Turning YouTube Captions Into an SRT File You Can Actually Use
How to get a usable SRT out of a YouTube video, why Studio hands you SubViewer instead, and why someone else's captions are a rights question first.
Productivity9 min read
Voice Messages You Cannot Play Out Loud
Voice notes stack up when the room is wrong, not because you dislike them. Here is how to clear the queue from the computer you are already sitting at.
Productivity9 min read
When Work Instructions Arrive as Voice Notes
Clients who send briefs and addresses as voice messages leave you with a record you cannot search, quote or forward, which is exactly when you need one.
Translation9 min read
Understanding a Voice Message in a Language You Do Not Speak
A voice note in a language you only half follow takes two steps to understand, and only one of them is likely to go wrong. Here is how to do both yourself.
Productivity9 min read
How to Get Through a Three-Hour Video Without Watching It
A three-hour video does not have to cost you three hours — or ninety minutes at double speed — if you treat it as something to read instead of watch.
Meeting Notes8 min read
Getting a Transcript That Says Who Said What
Speaker separation is a different task from recognising words, and it succeeds or fails almost entirely based on how the recording was made.
Glossary9 min read
Which Subtitle Format Do You Actually Need?
A destination-first guide to SRT, VTT, SBV and ASS, plus the one rule that decides whether converting your subtitle file costs you anything.
Meeting Notes9 min read
You Ran a Webinar. Turning It Into Something People Will Read
A talk and an article are different shapes, and most webinar write-ups fail because they keep the talk's structure. Here is what to throw away and what to keep.
Transcription9 min read
Following a Lecture in a Language You Are Still Learning
For students who catch two thirds of a lecture live, the fix isn't more vocabulary but a way to slow the lecture down after it happens.
Meeting Notes9 min read
You Recorded the Meeting. Now Get a Transcript Out of It
Where Teams, Google Meet and Zoom actually put a meeting recording, what their own transcripts cover, and why downloading the file is the route that always works.
Journal8 min read
Can You Transcribe Audio Without Uploading It Anywhere?
A straight answer on whether transcription can happen without your audio leaving the device, what encryption in transit actually covers, and the questions that separate real answers from marketing.
