Podcast, Interview and Academic transcription service
Multilingual transcription service including a text-editor, which makes it easy for podcasters, journalists and students to quickly transcribe their episodes.
The Danish debate and networking platform Kommunikationsforum wrote about the research we had done on what Danish university that has the most followers on social media.
The research was showing that Copenhagen University had the most followers and that Roskilde University had the least.
It ended up being a well done and written article where the journalist had interviewed a couple of the universities themselves.
You can check it out here: https://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler/Analyse-af-universiteternes-SoMe
Also, the site has around 75k monthly visitors (according to SimilarWeb) and a Domain Authority of 68 (according to Ahrefs).
Norwegian University of Life Sciences wrote about a content marketing research we had been making during summer.
The research was looking into what university in Norway had the most followers on social media compared to the amount of registered students.
The research concluded that Norwegian University of Life Sciences had the most followers on social media per registered student.
This is the article on the university page: https://www.nmbu.no/aktuelt/node/43537
It's a very strong domain with a Domain Authority of 73 (according to Ahrefs).
We received good feedback from podcasters using our service and therefore decided to mainly focus on podcasters. Podcast-transcriptions help podcasters with their SEO. Good SEO will help podcasters rank organically on certain keywords and thereby attract more listeners to their podcast.
After doing more than 30 one-to-one calls with our customers we learned that a lot of them using Android app only for recording and live transcribing but editing of the material happens elsewhere (Microsoft Word, Google Docs, etc) through our export feature.
We decided to build web application that works in modern browsers and allows users to edit their transcripts along with listening to audio. One of the core features of upcoming webapp is audio-to-text alignment which highlights portion of text that plays now.
As we now offer our service in English, Norwegian and Danish, we used the weekend to translate the website into Danish and Norwegian.
We used the plugin called Polylang (https://polylang.pro/) to easily set up the new structure in Wordpress and Ahrefs (https://ahrefs.com/) for doing keyword analysis for the different languages.
Polylang is faily easy to get into and they have a good support site (https://polylang.pro/doc/) that helped with the most common questions we had.
Last week we got our first paying customers! We could see that many of our users had started using our service regularly and suddenly we started getting Stripe notification that users had paid for our Premium subscription service!
We celebrated this with a beer got back to work.
Next goal is 10 paying customers👊😎
We talked to the Product Hunt team and they allowed us to re-launch our transcription app for students on Product Hunt.
You can check out the app here on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/focus-on-listening-2
This time we have used more time on the launch material for Product Hunt, such as an improved video as well as better pictures.
We launched our on-demand transcription app for students on Google Play on the 7th of February 2020.
By having interviewed many students, we were able to identify that many find it difficult to follow exactly what is being said in the classes.
By using our app, they are able to pay more attention to what is being said as well as improve their exam preparations by being able to go back and listen again.
This increases their chances of getting better grades, which seemed to be the main motivational factor for most students.
We have made a pivot of our app.
We are now going to making the Focus on Listening app into a transcription app for two types of students: those with difficulties following what the teacher is saying during lectures and those who have a harder time taking proper notes in the classroom.
Besides having previously experienced these troubles ourselves, we have conducted interviews with many students that seemed to point us in this direction.
A good example of this could be a foreign student at an American university. If English is not ones native language, it could be difficult to catch 100% of what is being said during the lecture.
By using our app these students can follow and focus their energy real-time on what is being said and thereby be more active in the classroom: this can be especially important for those classes that are partially graded by class participation. Besides, they will have more detailed notes when studying for the exams.
Our app also includes features that enable you to import PowerPoint slides handed out by the teacher or pictures taken of the class board. You will be able to both edit and share these – and many more functions are to come in the future.
Launched Focus on Listening on the Google Play Store. It contains a mechanical transcription service as well as a human-made transcription service. The human-made one cost money. All mechanical transcriptions are free.
To begin with we got quite a lot of organic downloads and we are now also paying for traffic. The app is being updated on a weekly basis.
Multilingual transcription service including a text-editor, which makes it easy for podcasters, journalists and students to quickly transcribe their episodes.