Subtitles & Captions9 min read
What Accessible Captions Actually Require
Captions, subtitles and transcripts are three different deliverables for three different audiences, and most caption tracks fail on quality rather than absence.
Subtitles & Captions10 min read
Adding Subtitles to Your Own Video: What Actually Has to Happen
Before you caption anything, you have to pick between burned-in subtitles and a separate file - and that one choice decides everything you do afterwards.
Meeting Notes8 min read
Where Zoom Recordings Are Saved — and What You Can Do With Them
Local Zoom recordings land in a Documents folder, cloud recordings live in the web portal on a deletion clock, and the small audio file is the one to keep.
Meeting Notes7 min read
A Year of Recorded Calls: How to Find the One You Need
A year of call recordings is unsearchable by default; transcribing the right subset and naming files consistently is what actually lets you find one again.
Transcription6 min read
How to Save WhatsApp Voice Messages Before You Switch Phones
A plain guide to getting WhatsApp voice messages off your old phone before setup finishes the window for doing it properly.
Transcription7 min read
How to Save a Voicemail Before It Disappears
Voicemails live on the carrier's system and get deleted on a schedule, so here's how to save one today on iPhone, Android or an answering machine.
Transcription7 min read
How to Read a Voice Message When You Can’t Listen to It
A voice note arrives while you're in a meeting or a quiet carriage. Here is how to read it instead of playing it, and what the built-in transcripts get wrong.
Transcription8 min read
Saving Someone’s Voice: What to Record, and What to Do With What You Have
How to record a parent or grandparent worth listening to twice, and how to store, label and transcribe the recordings you already have so they last.
Note-Taking6 min read
A Semester of Lecture Recordings: Turning 60 Hours of Audio Into Notes
A practical, three-week triage plan for a phone full of unopened lecture recordings, and an honest look at what transcription actually solves.
Transcription8 min read
Hundreds of Voice Messages You Never Played: What to Do With Them
Hundreds of unplayed voice notes pile up because audio cannot be skimmed. Here is the arithmetic behind the backlog, and three honest ways to clear it for good.
Tutorials7 min read
How to Get Recordings Off an Old Voice Recorder
A cable is the easy part — the real obstacle in old voice recorders is a proprietary format like DSS or MSV that needs converting before anything else works.
Meeting Notes6 min read
You Recorded a Two-Hour Meeting. How Do You Find the Right Minute?
Scrubbing through a two-hour recording by ear is slow for a reason, and three simple things make finding a specific moment fast instead.
