I do interview shows just rarely enough that every time I get 3/4 of the way through the transcript, I'm thinking it would have been 100% worth it to pay for human transcription .... and then I forget by the time I do the next one.
@grammargirl Have you ever tried turning on voice to text and then playing the show to see how much it picks up? I'm going to try that with something I was in to see if I can get the raw version.
@BarbChamberlain I use a pretty good automated transcription service (Rev), but it still requires a lot of nitpicky clean up with things like punctuation and putting quotation marks around titles.
@grammargirl I run the wikis for a couple podcasts and the Mac Whisper app (on sale on GumRoad of aall things) does a pretty good job of getting the correct text, but does not produce a usable transcript, as it doesn’t separate voices, so you just get a river of text.
@BarbChamberlain It would be interesting to see what voice-to-text could do, but I don't think for me it would be any better than the automated service. (Of course, it has the benefit of being free, but I'm willing to pay for better results.)
@jemal I've heard that Whisper is good too, but because my show is about writing, I feel like the text needs to be properly formatted. For me, it's not just for cutting tape.
@grammargirl oh sure, this is why I have not yet produced transcripts worth publishing. But so far it is better than transcribing manually - and I say this as a former Arabic transcriptionist.
@grammargirl I type like the wind so I also wonder if it's worth it to go through the pain of cleanup. I can't quite keep up with human speech but if I pause it every so often I can be pretty efficient.