How to add subtitles to a video for free without uploading it
8 min Three free ways to add subtitles to video without uploading it: a sidecar SRT that VLC loads itself, a caption file for YouTube, or HandBrake burning them in.
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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 work through a folder of recordings without uploading any of them
8 min There's no batch transcription button: the tool takes one file at a time. Here's how to get through a folder of recordings in one sitting, uploading nothing.
How to turn a podcast transcript into a blog post
8 min Going from podcast transcript to blog post is a rewrite, not a clean-up. A working method: find the claims, build a structure, quote only where words matter.
How to transcribe lecture recordings: a seven-step student workflow
8 min A seven-step student workflow to transcribe lecture recordings free in your browser, turn the text into notes and search a whole term's lectures at once.
How to transcribe a podcast episode and turn it into show notes
7 min How to transcribe podcast episodes free in your browser, then turn the transcript into show notes: summary, chapters with timestamps, links and a quote.
How to transcribe a research interview: consent, pseudonyms and coding
8 min How to transcribe a research interview without breaking what you promised: consent wording, pseudonyms, and a file your coding software can actually read.
How to transcribe iPhone voice memos on a desktop
8 min Getting the M4A off the phone is the hard part. Four routes Apple documents to a Mac or Windows PC, then how to transcribe a voice memo in your browser.
How to get a YouTube transcript for a video you own
8 min Download your own upload from YouTube Studio, transcribe the MP4 in your browser, and turn the result into a YouTube transcript, show notes or captions.
How to transcribe a Teams meeting recording without admin rights
8 min Teams transcription locked? The recording is still a video file in OneDrive. Who can download it and how to transcribe a Teams recording in your browser.
How to transcribe an interview: the whole job, end to end
8 min How to transcribe an interview end to end: choose verbatim, clean verbatim or notes, record two people well, run the file, then edit and timestamp quotes.