The Pepys podcast
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Short episodes on transcription, audio, and getting the spoken word onto the page – for people who record interviews, meetings, podcasts, and research. From the team at Pepys.
Episode 3 · 2 min
How accurate is AI transcription, really?
Accuracy is the first thing everyone asks about. Here's how it's actually measured with word error rate, why your audio drives almost all of it, and the simple things that move the number most.
Episode 2 · 3 min
What transcription actually is
Transcription sounds simple – turn audio into text – but the word hides a few choices that matter. Speech to text versus transcription, the structure that makes a transcript usable, and verbatim versus clean.
Episode 1 · 3 min
What everyone hates about transcription
We read about a hundred Reddit threads where people vented about transcription tools. The same four complaints came up again and again. Here's what they are, and what people actually want instead.
More episodes coming
- Ep 4 · AI vs. human transcription
- Ep 5 · Who said what: speaker diarization
- Ep 6 · Verbatim vs. clean: how much to keep
- Ep 7 · Transcripts, captions, subtitles, translations
- Ep 8 · Fixing messy audio and accents
- Ep 9 · What transcription should cost
- Ep 10 · Is it legal to record this? (and keeping it confidential)