Thanks for making the time. Can you walk me through how the recordings reach you? Mostly by email, which is the first problem. A 40-minute interview at a decent bit rate is 30 megabytes, so people compress it, and then I get the compressed copy. And the compression is what hurts the transcript? Not as much as you would think. What hurts is when two people talk over each other, or when the microphone is on the table between them and the room has a lot of echo. So what would you tell someone recording their first interview? Put the recorder closer to the quieter person. Say both names at the start. And do not stop the recording to check it, because you will forget to start it again. That last one sounds like experience. Twice. The second time was with a professor whose flight left in an hour, so I had to reconstruct the middle third from memory. That was the day I stopped trusting myself and started trusting the red light.