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Thanks for the transcript! I'm not usually a fan of audio/video so I love that I can just read the interview.

How is it generated? Speech recognition? Much in the way of hand editing necessary?

I tried machine translation but it just isn't there for technical content. I use rev.com, which is a human transcription service. I supply them with a thesaurus of terms used and then proof read it and correct it myself after. The headings and jump points I add manually.

I have some feedback about the transcription. There are some places where you are transcribing a conversation with Andrew, and you're labeled as Adam. There are some other places where you are not having a conversation with Andrew, but are instead acting as a narrator to insert context or clarification. These are also labeled as Adam.

It becomes clear which are which from context after a couple sentences, but it's a little jarring. It would be nice if the second kind were labeled Narration or Voiceover or something.

Thanks for reading. Interesting idea! I did have this thought myself at some point and went and checked on some other narrated podcasts and found they kept it all under one label, but I can see how that could be confusing. Maybe I'll try that for the next one.

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