The Sunday Supplement: #23
A good app if you deal with transcribing; the best of what I read and saw this week about Ukraine; a lot of love for locked-room mysteries, and more.
A good app for transcribing interviews.
I interview a lot, which means I transcribe a lot, and it really is my least favorite task of the job.
When someone else foots the bills, I use Rev.com to handle it – transcriptions done by real people. But on my own, I’m left to typing, slowly slowly, always hoping an app will come along that’s full-proof.
I’ve tried Just Press Record and TapeACall Pro. I’ve tried Otter and Smart Voice. None good enough. I’ve even tried simply playing back a recording inside a Google Meet meeting (Google Meet has excellent transcription). Kinda okay, kinda not.
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