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Turning audio and video into text: methods, accuracy, cost, and what to expect from AI compared with a person.

TranscriptionOctober 24, 20266 min read

What 27,852 YouTube transcripts show: languages, lengths, topics

A snapshot of the public SozAI transcript library on 24 October 2026: which languages, how long, which topics and channels.

TranscriptionOctober 24, 20267 min read

Why 28 % of Russian-language YouTube videos came back with an English transcript

How YouTube auto-dubbing put English captions on Russian videos, how often it happened in the SozAI library and how we fixed it.

TranscriptionOctober 24, 20267 min read

SozAI accuracy test: 10 languages × 20 files

Word error rate of SozAI transcription in ten languages, measured on 200 open FLEURS clips, with the weak languages explained and all per-file results published.

TranscriptionOctober 2, 202610 min read

How to Transcribe an Interview: Verbatim Levels, Speaker Labels and Notation

A practical guide to choosing a verbatim level, labeling speakers and marking pauses, with real timing estimates and an engine's output checked against a public recording.

TranscriptionAugust 2, 202610 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.

ProductivityAugust 2, 20269 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 NotesAugust 2, 20268 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.

TranscriptionAugust 2, 20269 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 NotesAugust 2, 20269 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.

JournalAugust 2, 20268 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.