And you probably record those interviews.
Which means you spend a lot of time transcribing interviews.
I don't know about you, but I hate transcribing.
Because... I suck at typing.
It takes me twice as long to transcribe an interview as it does to conduct the interview in the first place.
Typical transcription process:
Hit play. Start typing. Fall behind. Get frustrated. Backspace. Backspace. Pause audio. Correct typos. Resume. Stop caring about typos. Get more frustrated. Backspace. Continue...
Yuck.
But then, my ah-ha! moment:
In a previous Trade Tip, I told you about my text-to-speech reader discovery. If we can use artificial intelligence to convert the written word to audio, there must be options to convert audio files to text, right?
Why in the -blank- didn't I think of that before?
Googles "automated transcriptions."
Magic. Gained hours of my life back.
Now I use Rev.com to convert audio interviews into text documents.
It's $.25 per minute for a rough (automated) transcription. Yes, you will have to correct a few words here and there, but it's a heck of a lot faster than typing.
You can also pay a bit more for a transcription by "a professional human" if you're looking for a more polished document.
Big bonus: there's a pay-as-you-go option (in other words, no monthly contract required).
You can use speech-to-text to generate video captions and foreign subtitles, which is great for making your content more accessible.
You'll save time and money. And you can enjoy doing interviews again!
If you find this helpful, feel free to pass it along and share (or trade) this tip with your fellow writers.
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