@rockhopper70 To record a podcast you need really good audio, plus a bunch of time to edit it – to make a podcast listenable you really have to take out all the erms and ums and so on. Out and about, it’s hard to get the audio quality needed (for example, there’s a loud sound system playing in the background here in the actual recording). Thanks to the wonders of AI transcription, there’s now a halfway house between a podcast and an interview (which would previously have been based on lots of note taking, filling in the narrative, and occasional quotes). For interviews like this, I record the chat, use AI to transcribe it, and then check back against the recording for accuracy. I straighten out the text a bit so it misses the half sentences etc that we all have in speech, and the result is a much fuller interview than I could possibly previously achieve in written form with available time and resources. But, you really wouldn’t want to listen to the audio – it’s way too rough and would hurt your ears!
Hopefully you’ve noticed a bunch more interviews like this appearing recently and have enjoyed them – it’s something I’ve realised that I can now do, thanks to the march of technology. I don’t have to have exactly the right audio equipment, or studio setting, etc etc. As long as I’ve got my phone, I can basically interview anyone I can persuade to talk to me!
