Guides to recording and transcription.
Practical writing on capturing speech well — microphone technique, noisy rooms, accuracy, and caption formats. Useful whether or not you use NoiseScribe.
How to transcribe an interview
Getting a usable interview transcript is mostly about what you do before anyone starts talking.
Recording speech in a noisy room
Not all noise is equal. Knowing which kind you are fighting tells you what to do about it.
What actually affects transcription accuracy
Accuracy percentages are quoted constantly and almost never defined. Here is what they mean.
SRT vs VTT: which caption format do you need?
Two formats, decades apart, both still in daily use. The choice is simpler than it looks.
Transcribing multilingual and code-switched speech
The hardest audio isn’t noisy — it’s bilingual. Here’s why, and what to do about it.
Turning a transcript into meeting minutes
A transcript records everything. Minutes record what matters. The distance between them is a method.