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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.

Épisodes

  1. -7 h

    Is it legal to record this? (and keeping it confidential)

    Before you record a call or meeting there's a consent question, and it varies by where you are. The one-party vs all-party basics, plus how to keep sensitive recordings actually confidential.

    2 min

  2. -7 h

    What transcription should cost

    Transcription pricing is all over the map – per minute, monthly subscriptions, free tiers with catches. Here's how the models actually work, so you stop overpaying for how you really use it.

    2 min

  3. -7 h

    Fixing messy audio and accents

    Most transcription accuracy is won or lost before you hit record. How to get a usable transcript out of noisy rooms, strong accents, and crosstalk, and how to salvage a recording you've already got.

    2 min

  4. -7 h

    Transcripts, captions, subtitles, translations

    Transcript, captions, subtitles, translation – people use these interchangeably, but they're four different things with different formats and jobs. Here's what each one actually is.

    2 min

  5. -7 h

    Verbatim vs. clean: how much to keep

    Verbatim transcription keeps every um and false start; clean verbatim strips them out. Choose wrong and your transcript is either unreadable or missing what you needed. Here's how to pick.

    2 min

  6. -7 h

    Who said what: speaker diarization

    Speaker diarization is the feature that labels who's talking, turning a wall of text into a readable conversation. How it works, why it matters for interviews and meetings, and where it still struggles.

    2 min

  7. -7 h

    AI vs. human transcription

    AI transcribes in minutes; a human transcriptionist takes hours but catches what AI misses on hard audio. Here's how they really compare on speed, accuracy, and cost, and when each is the right call.

    2 min

  8. -7 h

    How accurate is AI transcription, really?

    Accuracy is the first thing everyone asks about. Here's how it's actually measured with word error rate, why your audio drives almost all of it, and the simple things that move the number most.

    2 min

  9. -7 h

    What transcription actually is

    Transcription sounds simple – turn audio into text – but the word hides a few choices that matter. Speech to text versus transcription, the structure that makes a transcript usable, and verbatim versus clean.

    3 min

  10. -7 h

    What everyone hates about transcription

    We read about a hundred Reddit threads where people vented about transcription tools. The same four complaints came up again and again. Here's what they are, and what people actually want instead.

    3 min
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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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