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Help Me Transcribe My Videos About Programming

I've got a website with videos about programming from an indie-hacker point of view. I'd really like to also have text transcripts of each episode because that'll improve SEO.

This is just a part-time gig (there's a backlog of 10 videos, then one new video a week). The ideal candidate for the job is someone who is:

  • a native English speaker (or non-native but with perfect grammar)
  • wants to study/is studying/ or has studied computer science

https://www.semicolonandsons.com/series/Inside-The-Muse

on June 22, 2020
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    Use otter.ai to do it with 95% accuracy.

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      I appreciate the suggestion, and I'd be perfectly happy if whoever I hired used a service like that behind the scenes. But I still need a human in the loop for the last 5% -- it's gotta be grammatical when it's on my website and connected with my brand.

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    Hi Jack, I know you're busy but this is kinda important and can't wait till Monday, so could you check your email please?
    Thank you.

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    Jack, Would love to help if you are still looking for a candidate! u can reach me at alex at alex.design

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    @semicolonandsons - you probably have already done this, but you may want to find a really good writer on Upwork or ProBlogger, and have them work with a Transcriber.

    One transcriber I use very often is this person:
    https://www.upwork.com/fl/marya

    She does really good work, but it (the work-product) still does need some editing/tweaking.

    I've also worked with several writers/editors. While their end work-product is generally pretty good, I still usually need to do some form of edits.

    The most significant edits I have to do are converting the transcription into a legitimate article format (headings, mobile readable, images, etc.).

    If you're not trying to convert your audio directly into properly formatted article, it'll be a little easier.

    Wish I could provide concrete referrals, but I haven't found anyone who delivers a 100% article end-product that I would publish.

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      Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep her in mind (and ping you if I ever find someone who delivers 100% end product -- though seems unlikely, at least without paying big bucks)

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    There are services that can do it for you. Or you could look at Watson's speech recognition module: https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/cloud/watson-speech-to-text

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      Transcript received :)

      Because I'm running two businesses, I receive a lot of messages, and therefore can't respond to everything within 24 hours. Sorry if you got freaked out and thought I disappeared :)

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      sure i'll pop you a line now