Why accents change speech recognition accuracy, and what helps
8 min Speech recognition accents come from the training data, not from the speaker. What the research measures, what it does not, and what actually helps accuracy.
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Getting speech into text: formats, accuracy, privacy, and what your laptop can run. Prices dated, facts sourced, tool claims measured. How they are written.
How to transcribe a meeting, whatever it was recorded on
8 min Pick your route: transcribe a meeting from Zoom, Teams or Meet with the platform guide, or handle a plain phone recording with no platform behind it.
Two-speaker interviews: what speech recognition does and does not do
8 min Whisper speaker diarization is a separate task the model does not do, so a two-speaker interview comes back as one block. Here is how to add the labels.
Why speech recognition invents words in silence, and how to stop it
8 min Whisper hallucination is when the model writes a sign-off or a looping phrase over a pause. Here is why a speech model does that, and five ways to stop it.
How to edit a transcript fast: seven mistakes to fix before you publish
8 min How to edit a transcript fast: the seven mistakes speech recognition makes most, the quickest search for each, the fix, and a time budget per hour of audio.
Improve transcription accuracy: nine ways to record audio that transcribes well
8 min Nine recording habits that improve transcription accuracy: mic distance, one voice at a time, echo, levels, phone placement, file format and a 10-second test.
Subtitle timing is off: why it drifts and how to fix it
8 min Subtitle timing off usually means one of three things: a constant offset, drift that grows through the file, or a few cues out on their own. How to fix each.
Captions for TikTok, Reels and Shorts: what each platform accepts
8 min Subtitles for Reels, TikTok and Shorts: what YouTube's help pages document, what we could not verify, and how to cut cues short enough to read on a phone.
How to transcribe a focus group, and where automatic transcription stops
8 min How to transcribe a focus group when six people overlap and the transcript has no speaker labels: what to record, how to moderate, and when to pay a human.
How to burn subtitles into a video with free tools
8 min Burn subtitles into video free with HandBrake or one ffmpeg command: the exact steps, the one-track limit, how styling gets chosen, and what it costs you.