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

TranscriptionAugust 2, 20269 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.

ProductivityAugust 2, 20269 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.

TranscriptionAugust 2, 20269 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.

TranscriptionAugust 2, 20268 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.

ProductivityAugust 2, 202610 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.

TranscriptionAugust 2, 20269 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-TakingAugust 2, 202622 min read

Qualitative Research Transcription: Conventions, Ethics and Tools

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.

ProductivityAugust 2, 20268 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.

JournalAugust 2, 202610 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.

Meeting NotesJuly 30, 20268 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.