How to make a podcast transcript

I really enjoyed my chat with Saron on the CodeNewbie podcast, and wanted to circulate the content more widely. Audio is great, but text is more searchable and thus more discoverable, so I wanted to transcribe the show.

Automatic transcript via YouTube

YouTube transcribes for free, all you need is a video. I took the podcast and made a video with a black screen, and uploaded to YouTube. The transcript got maybe 70% right, but not enough to actually understand the show without listening.

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welcome to the gurney podcast when we
talk to people on their current journey

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notes about being you on yours I'm your
house around today on the show I'm so

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excited to have to teach an independent
Android developer and creator of

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technically speaking to be on as a high
so you do a lot of stuff but the main

Correct the transcript via Fiverr

I did not want to correct the transcript myself, so I outsourced it on Fiverr. I provided the link to download the podcast, the .srt transcript from YouTube, and some extra information:

1. The name of the show is CodeNewbie
2. The host is Saron Yitbarek
3. The guest is Chiu-Ki Chan (aka me!)
4. Technically Speaking is the name of the newsletter we talked about. Please capitalize.

I got the cleaned transcript the next day, for $30 ($31.5 including fees):

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SARON: Welcome to the CodeNewbie podcast, where we
talk to people on their coding journey

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in hopes of helping you on yours. I'm your
host, Saron. Today on the show I'm so

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00:00:16,779 --> 00:00:21,060
excited to have Chiu-Ki Chan, independent
Android developer and creator of

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Technically Speaking. Chiu-Ki, you want to say hi?
CHIU-KI: Hello! SARON: So you do a lot of stuff, but the main

Convert to HTML

The transcript has line breaks that makes it a bit hard to read. I wrote a Python script to convert that to Markdown, then open it in Atom to get the HTML.

Add links and Publish

This is optional, but when I pasted the HTML to my blog I added some links as well.

You can see the results here: blog.sqisland.com/2016/03/codenewbie-podcast-visibility.html