Interview Transcription
Transcribe an interview to text
Journalists, qualitative researchers, recruiters and oral history projects all end up with the same artefact: two people talking for forty minutes, and a need to find one sentence in it three weeks later.
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What makes interview recordings hard
Interviews are two-voice recordings where one voice is usually much closer to the microphone than the other. The interviewer, sitting behind the recorder, often transcribes worse than the subject — which is backwards from what you need, since the questions give the answers their context.
A workflow that holds up
Record with the microphone closer to your subject than to yourself.
Upload the whole session rather than splitting it — context across the full conversation improves accuracy.
Work from the timestamped transcript so you can jump back to the audio for any quote.
Verify every direct quote against the recording before publishing it.
Things worth knowing first
- → Ask your subject to say their name and title at the start; it gives you a clean reference for spelling.
- → Overlapping speech is the biggest accuracy cost in interviews — a moment of turn-taking discipline pays off later.
- → For multilingual interviews, select the dominant language rather than auto-detect.
What you get back
Every job returns both versions. Take whichever fits the job.
An illustration of the two output formats. Not the result of any particular recording.
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