Step-by-step guides for the jobs that come up around transcripts, subtitles and recordings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Captions, subtitles and transcripts are three different deliverables for three different audiences, and most caption tracks fail on quality rather than absence.
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.
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.
A box of mixed tapes nobody has opened in fifteen years, sorted into what is genuinely at risk, what can wait, and what is cheaper to hand to someone else.
A practical walkthrough of turning a box of cassettes into files: the kit, the real-time cost, and what commonly goes wrong.
A workflow for med students and clinicians: turn lectures, rounds, and dictation into searchable text with AI — terminology accuracy included.
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