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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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!

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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

Product Updates

Auto-Transcribe your Dropbox Audio Files

You can now upload your Dropbox files to Vocalmatic for auto-transcription! Simply select which file you want to upload from Dropbox and we take care of the rest!

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Why You Should Convert Your Podcasts into Text

We outline the top reasons why podcasters should be converting their episodes into readable, searchable, transcripts.