Tom Zaragoza - Vocalmatic Blog

How To Create an SRT Caption File Automatically (2020)

Video is everywhere nowadays. Whether you're posting a video on social media or creating for YouTube, it's one of the best mediums for reaching your audience. If you've thought about reaching everyone with your videos, especially those with hard-of-hearing, you might have come across the idea of creating captions for

Automatic Transcription

This Week In Automatic Transcription Fails - Week 1

Welcome to Week 1 of "This Week in Automatic Transcription Fails"!

Entrepreneurship

A new approach to the Vocalmatic Blog

I've been thinking lately about the type of content to write on this blog. There are some business blogs out there that I enjoy reading and find myself coming back to. That's what I want Vocalmatic's blog to be for someone out there - a blog where people come back

Automatic Transcription

How To Automatically Transcribe Video to Text For Free (2020)

In this post, we'll go over how to automatically transcribe video into text for free using Vocalmatic. Sign up and get 30 minutes for free!

Entrepreneurship

Finding SaaS Ideas To Build

Wondering how to find SaaS ideas you can build out? Learn more about a guide I put together to help you out!

Digital Marketing

How to Grow Your Podcast Audience with SEO in 2020 [Step-By-Step Guide]

Read our step-by-step guide on Podcast SEO. We'll get you started on growing your audience and exposure on search engines!

Automatic Transcription

How To Transcribe an Interview Quickly (2019)

If you're on a tight deadline and need to transcribe an interview recording, the fastest way to do so is with automatic transcription. However, this advice comes with a few assumptions. First, we're assuming that the overall audio quality of the audio recording is pretty good and that those being

General

The Complete List of Online Transcription Software (2019)

Welcome to the transcription software list! We'll try to compile a complete list of transcription software that is available out there. All transcription software that we can find will appear on the list below! In the future, we'll review the transcription software out there so you can get a much

Automatic Transcription

Automatic Transcription Vs Manual Transcription: Which Should You Choose? (2020)

Updated on December 27th, 2019 Speech-to-Text Technology has been getting better than ever over the years. But as someone who needs to transcribe an audio file into text, you might be wondering: Should I use automatic transcription? Or should I just transcribe it manually myself? Are the solutions out there

Automatic Transcription

Automatically Transcribe Audacity Audio to Text

Let's say you've just finished recording your podcast on Audacity. Now, you might be wondering, can Audacity transcribe audio to text? Unfortunately, the answer to this is no - Audacity itself cannot transcribe audio to text. What you are able to do, however, is use Audacity to playback the record

Thoughts

Opening a Bank Account for your Online Business: A Recommendation for Canadians

When payments began trickling in for Vocalmatic, I needed a way to separate my personal banking from my business banking. That's when I stumbled upon a bank account specifically made for small, online businesses. If you're a Canadian searching for a banking solution for your online business, have a look

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Be Relentlessly Helpful

Be obsessed with being helpful to your users and customers

Entrepreneurship

Thoughts on Online Entrepreneurship

Hey all! After racking my brain over what to write about on Vocalmatic, I've come to the conclusion that I should write about my experiences with online entrepreneurship. Vocalmatic is my first ever successful online business. In reality, I'm really only one or two steps ahead of those thinking about

Automatic Transcription

Embed Your Transcripts Anywhere

After you've used Vocalmatic to automatically transcribe your audio recordings, you can now embed them anywhere online. Whether it's a blog post or your website, as long as you can place HTML code, you can embed your transcript. Here are the steps to enable and embed your automated transcript anywhere

Day 13 to Day 21 with Google Assistant

Quick aside: Going through this exercise, what I realized is I'm not the best at writing every day - it's definitely a habit I need to get into. Maybe I can use voice instead? Hmm... Anyway, welcome to the last batch of days of using Google Assistant! If you haven't

Day 4 to Day 12 - a summary of using Google Assistant and Montreal

I know, it's been a long time since I last blogged so it's about time I jumped back into it! I might transition into summarizing my days using Google Assistant as it can get a bit hectic over the holiday season. Over the course of 8 days, I started to

Thoughts

Day 3 With Google Assistant - Local Supermarket Voice Search and the Weather

I'm coming down with a bit of a cold, so today's post will only include two voice search queries. Let's jump right in. Nations Supermarket Curious about the closing time of a supermarket, I resorted to asking Google Assistant for the store hours. I'm not 100% sure if this was

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Day 2 with Google Assistant - Camels, Toronto Raptors, and the Weather

Hey! Welcome to Day 2 with Google Assistant. Let's jump right into what type of things I voice searched for. Weather This is a must. Right when I wake up, the first thing I ask about is Ok Google, what's the weather today in degrees Celsius And Google Assistant will

Thoughts

Day 1 With Google Assistant - Finding a toothbrush, weather, and setting an alarm

Day 1 With Google Assistant - The weather, finding a new toothbrush, and setting an alarm.

Thoughts

Beginning My 21 Days with Google Assistant

Over the next 21 days, I try to use voice recognition technology with Google Assistant to do daily tasks on my phone. This is the 21 days with Google Assistant Experiment!

General

I'm Donating My Voice to Mozilla's Common Voice Project and You Should Too!

In the past year, Mozilla Research announced an intiative to help machines learn how people speak - The Common Voice Project. What you do is record a sentence they provide to your microphone and it'll get saved. Then, Mozilla will ask others on the Internet to validate the sentence, a

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The Quick Guide to SEO for Your Audio Files

Updated December 27th, 2019 For the audio content creators out there, you might be thinking about how to get your content discovered. In this guide, we'll show you the most effective strategies you can implement today to optimize for SEO of your audio files. When talking about audio recordings, spoken

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How I made my first sale on Vocalmatic

How I used the Google Chrome Extension to get my first sale and first few customers for Vocalmatic.

Product Updates

Refer A Friend to Vocalmatic

Refer a friend to Vocalmatic and you both get 20 minutes of additional auto-transcription for free!

General

Vocalmatic is now on Youtube!

Hey all! I just finished recording and putting together a super simple video to explain how to auto-transcribe on the Vocalmatic platform. It's been a while since I've been in front of a camera, but it was definitely fun! Check out the video here: Cheers, Tom