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What accuracy percentages actually measure, the five conditions that degrade a transcript, and how to test AI transcription on your own audio.
Video Transcription Blog & Guides
Practical guides on turning video and podcast audio into text — which export format to use, what actually degrades transcription accuracy, how to subtitle and translate, and what to do with a transcript once you have one.
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How to add subtitles to a video
Burned-in captions or a separate SRT: how to make either from a transcript, where each platform wants the file, and the rules that keep captions readable.
How to transcribe a podcast episode to text
Turn a podcast episode into a searchable, timestamped podcast transcript — then publish it, cut chapters from it, and get it into your RSS feed.
SRT vs WebVTT vs TXT: which transcript format do you need?
The three formats a transcript exports to, which players and platforms accept each, how to convert between them, and how to pick without trial and error.
How to translate subtitles without breaking the timings
Why a general translator wrecks an SRT, how much text each language expands by, and how to translate subtitles so they stay in sync with the video.
How to repurpose one video into a week of content
A repeatable workflow for turning one recording into an article, clips, social posts and a newsletter, starting from its transcript, with real times.
Why a video URL fails to transcribe, and how to fix it
Rejected links, missing YouTube transcripts, private or region-locked posts, wrong URL forms: what each failure means and what to try next for each one.
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