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Short episodes on transcription, audio, and getting the spoken word onto the page – for people who record interviews, meetings, podcasts, and research. From the team at Pepys.

  1. Jul 17

    Stop Renting Minutes

    Transcription work is bursty, so a monthly subscription bills you through every quiet month. Pay once for the minutes you actually use, and stop renting a tool you open twice a year.

  2. Jul 17

    The Transcription Mountain Between Fieldwork and Your Thesis

    A qualitative PhD runs a couple of dozen interviews, and typing them up by hand can eat weeks. Here is the real math, why your ethics board changes the tool you can use, and why transcription is a methods decision, not clerical work.

  3. Jul 17

    Notes Without a Bot in the Call

    You don't need a notetaker bot silently joining your meeting. Record it yourself, upload the file after, and turn it into clean minutes, with consent you can stand behind and audio that stays yours.

  4. Jul 17

    Recording Oral History, So the Voice Survives

    How to record and transcribe an oral history so names, places, and the way someone actually spoke survive as a document that can sit beside the audio in an archive.

  5. Jul 17

    One Podcast, Many Formats

    A single episode becomes show notes, a blog post, pull-quotes, and clips once you have the transcript. Here's the repurposing chain, and why one weekly show is a whole year of raw material.

  6. Jul 17

    Long Files That Don't Die

    The number one transcription complaint is that long recordings die halfway through. The fix is split-and-stitch: chunk the audio, transcribe the pieces, and re-offset the timestamps so a two-hour file comes back whole.

  7. Jul 17

    Depositions and Legal Transcription: The Seven-Hour Record

    There's no true average deposition length, only a federal seven-hour cap and about one transcript page per minute. Legal work leans verbatim and stays confidential, and only a certified reporter's transcript is the official record.

  8. Jul 17

    From Recording to Coding-Ready: Transcribing Research Interviews

    The end-to-end researcher workflow for turning interviews into coding-ready transcripts: capture clean, get an AI first pass, pick a verbatim style, anonymize, and export a file your analysis software actually opens.

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Short episodes on transcription, audio, and getting the spoken word onto the page – for people who record interviews, meetings, podcasts, and research. From the team at Pepys.

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  • Creator
    Pepys
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Pepys
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