Transcription9 min read
Getting the Text of a Recorded Phone Call
Before you transcribe a recorded call, settle whether the recording was lawful — then deal with narrowband audio, mixed channels, and the numbers you will have to check.
Productivity9 min read
Transcribing Something Very Long: Sermons, Audiobooks, All-Day Sessions
A day-long recording needs a different plan than a short one: split it by meaning, keep the timestamps, and expect the quality to drift.
Transcription9 min read
Getting the Text Out of a Video File on a Mac
macOS can extract the audio from a video without installing anything, but it stops short of transcribing it — here is the whole route, including where it breaks.
Subtitles & Captions9 min read
Subtitles Out of Sync: Fixing a Constant Offset and Fixing Drift
Subtitles that are wrong from the first line and subtitles that slide further out as the film plays need two completely different fixes.
Subtitles & Captions9 min read
Putting Subtitles on a Video in a Language You Do Not Speak
Translated subtitles are two jobs, not one, and doing them in the wrong order multiplies every transcription error into every language you publish.
Transcription8 min read
How to Quote a Video in an Essay Without Retyping It
A practical walkthrough of pulling an exact quotation and its timestamp from a video, checking captions against audio, and formatting it for your citation style.
Productivity10 min read
Turning a Podcast Episode Into Show Notes People Read
A finished episode still needs notes, chapters and social posts, and a timestamped transcript is the raw material that makes all four fast instead of guesswork.
Transcription9 min read
Recording a Medical Appointment So You Remember What Was Said
Asking the clinician first is what makes recording a consultation work; here is how to ask, where to put the phone, and what to do with the audio afterward.
Note-Taking10 min read
Transcribing Research Interviews Without Losing the Data
Before you open a transcription tool, decide what level of detail your analysis needs and what your consent form allows, because both are expensive to change later.
Productivity8 min read
How Long Does It Take to Transcribe a Two-Hour Recording?
The real time cost of transcribing a two-hour recording isn't the transcription itself, it's the correction pass afterward, and this walks through the arithmetic.
Productivity9 min read
How Long Will My Speech Take to Deliver?
The arithmetic for turning a word count into a delivery time, the three things that quietly break it, and why only a timer and your own voice settle the question.
Journal10 min read
How Accurate Is AI Transcription, Really
Accuracy claims describe a system on one recording, not your audio, so here is what actually predicts transcript quality and how to judge it per use case.
