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Voice dictation and transcription guides
Practical advice for getting cleaner speech-to-text, better transcripts, and useful subtitles.
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How to enable voice typing on Android
Turn on Gboard voice typing, restore a missing microphone button, and understand which advanced features need a Pixel.
August 31, 2026
Gboard voice typing not working? Try these fixes
Fix a missing microphone, permission errors, stalled dictation, and unavailable advanced voice typing on Android.
August 22, 2026
How to turn an audio recording into text
What actually determines transcript quality, and the fastest free way to do it.
August 22, 2026
SRT vs VTT: the difference, and when it actually matters
Two subtitle formats that look almost identical, and the handful of cases where the difference bites you.
August 22, 2026
Voice dictation for programmers: why it mangles code terms
Autocorrect is the enemy of camelCase. Here's what a dictation tool has to do differently for developers.
August 22, 2026
How to summarize a long audio recording without listening to all of it
Transcripts are searchable but still long. Summaries are short but you can't trust them blindly. Here's how to use both.
August 22, 2026
Lossless audio trimming, explained (and why most trimmers aren't)
The difference between a cut that takes one second and a cut that takes a minute — and why that difference exists.
August 27, 2026
How to transcribe a Zoom meeting
Zoom's own transcript feature has real limits. Here's what actually works when you need a clean text record of a call.
August 27, 2026
How to transcribe an interview
What matters most when you're going to quote from a recording, not just skim it.
August 27, 2026
How to transcribe a podcast episode
The transcript usually isn't for the listener — it's for the show. That changes what "good enough" means.
August 27, 2026
How to get a transcript from a video
You don't need a video editor or the command line — here's the fastest actual path from video file to text.
August 27, 2026
How to turn a voice memo into text
iPhone, Android, or a dedicated recorder — the fastest path to text depends on which app made the file.
August 27, 2026
How to create subtitles automatically
Auto-generated captions are ready to publish as-is less often than people assume — here's how to actually check.
August 27, 2026
How to transcribe MP3 files
MP3 is the most common recording format there is — here's the one thing about it actually worth knowing before you transcribe one.
August 27, 2026
Best audio formats for transcription
It matters less than you'd think — until it doesn't. What actually affects transcript quality across MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, and the rest.
August 27, 2026
How to transcribe a lecture
Long recordings, dense vocabulary, and a Q&A at the end — what actually makes lecture transcripts harder than most.
August 27, 2026
How to clean up an automatic transcript
"Clean it up" means different things depending on what you're about to do with it — here's how to pick the right pass.
August 27, 2026
Human vs AI transcription: what actually differs
Not accuracy, mostly — it's judgment, cost, and turnaround. Here's where each one is actually the right call.