How to transcribe a Zoom recording locally
8 min Where Zoom saves a recording on Windows and Mac, which file to use, how to download a cloud one, and how to transcribe a Zoom recording without uploading it.
Transcription, plainly explained.
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 judge a free subtitle generator before you upload anything
9 min A repeatable twenty minute test for any free subtitle generator: one hard two minute clip, eight questions to ask it, and what a good answer looks like.
Transcription cost per minute: a dated price reference
9 min Transcription cost per minute at nine vendors: developer APIs from $0.0025, consumer plans from $0.005, human work from $1.99. Prices dated 15 September 2026.
Otter vs Rev vs Descript vs free local transcription: cost per hour compared
8 min What an hour of transcription costs on Otter, Rev, Descript, the speech APIs, and a model running on your own laptop. Every price checked 15 September 2026.
Why every free transcription site caps you at 30 minutes (the maths)
8 min Free transcription tiers stop at 30, 45 or 60 minutes for a reason you can calculate: what a free user costs, what an ad pays, and why local changes it.
Subtitles and accessibility: what the WCAG captions rules require
8 min A plain guide to the WCAG captions rules: which success criteria are Level A, which are AA, what captions must contain, and how to produce the file.
How to convert SRT to VTT, plain text or a document
8 min Converting SRT to VTT, VTT back to SRT, or a subtitle file into plain text or a document: the exact edits, what each one loses, and when to use an editor.
How to transcribe your own TikTok video into text you can reuse
8 min Transcribe a TikTok video you made yourself: start from your source file, keep the whole job in the browser, and reuse the text as a description or a post.
How to make an SRT file (and the format rules that break players)
8 min The exact SRT format, three ways to make a file, the timing rules broadcasters use, and the five small mistakes that make YouTube or VLC reject it.
SRT vs VTT vs plain text: which export do you need?
8 min SRT vs VTT vs plain text, settled: what a cue is, why SRT carries no styling, what breaks in the wrong player, and which export to take for each job.