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.
How to.
Step-by-step ways to get speech into text, subtitles onto video, and files into the right shape.
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.
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.
How to work through a folder of recordings without uploading any of them
7 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
7 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
7 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.