You mean this? FWIW I do transcriptions for AXRP—it takes a bunch of time to get something I percieve as “not embarrassingly bad”, and as mentioned in the sister comment to yours, I’m basically making the tradeoff for this episode of publishing more episodes while having them be less polished.
Yes, that’s the article I meant. I understand the tradeoff you’re making, and given the costs you cite, I can totally see that that’s not worthwhile for you, especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
That said, I’ve mailed the Clearer Thinking podcast team to ask about more details regarding their current transcription workflow (which is currently a combination of automatic transcription via Otter.ai, followed by a hired human transcriptionist, to minimize required staff time), and will post any responses I get.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself. (As a general matter of economic arbitrage, nobody who’s being paid California salaries should spend their own time to produce transcripts themselves.)
especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
Yeah—this podcast is a side-project of my main podcast which is a side-project relative to my day job (CHAI PhD student), so time minimization is of the essence.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself.
I’ll chuck in US$30 of my own money. (would be more if I had a better sense of the quality bar you were going to reach)
You mean this? FWIW I do transcriptions for AXRP—it takes a bunch of time to get something I percieve as “not embarrassingly bad”, and as mentioned in the sister comment to yours, I’m basically making the tradeoff for this episode of publishing more episodes while having them be less polished.
Concretely, I guess it would cost me ~$270 plus 2-4 hours of my time.
Yes, that’s the article I meant. I understand the tradeoff you’re making, and given the costs you cite, I can totally see that that’s not worthwhile for you, especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
That said, I’ve mailed the Clearer Thinking podcast team to ask about more details regarding their current transcription workflow (which is currently a combination of automatic transcription via Otter.ai, followed by a hired human transcriptionist, to minimize required staff time), and will post any responses I get.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself. (As a general matter of economic arbitrage, nobody who’s being paid California salaries should spend their own time to produce transcripts themselves.)
@MondSemmel Lightcone will pay for this. DM me if you want to discuss details :)
Sure, I’ve sent you a DM.
Yeah—this podcast is a side-project of my main podcast which is a side-project relative to my day job (CHAI PhD student), so time minimization is of the essence.
I’ll chuck in US$30 of my own money. (would be more if I had a better sense of the quality bar you were going to reach)