How do you do your video transcriptions on Whiteboard Friday's?

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How do you do your video transcriptions on Whiteboard Friday's?  Are they done manually or with software?

[Mike.Goracke]

SEOmoz uses https://www.speechpad.com/ for Whiteboard Friday transcription.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the transcription text you will see the SpeechPad URL, as well as http://blog.speechpad.com/video-transcription/ for the actual service.

Mike

[danatanseo]

Hi Mike,

I know you guys use Wistia for the videos. Is there any particular reason you guys have opted not to use their transcription service? I ask because we are transitioning to Wistia, but one thing I don't like is not being able to add our own transcriptions if we want to. Thanks!

[Mike.Goracke]

Hi Dana,

I don't work for SEOmoz (although I wish I did!).

I know SEOmoz uses Wistia for hosting, but it looks like they do their transcriptions through SpeechPad. I am guessing the reasoning behind it is money - Wistia costs $5 per minute to be returned within 24 hours and SpeechPad is only $2.50 per minute with a 24 hour turn-time.

And depending on when Rand and company film, they could potentially get the cost down to $1 per minute with a one week turn-time.

Only speculation on my part

Mike

[Nick_Sayers]

Hey!

Good question and Mike's answer is partially right. In addition to their awesome turn around for transcriptions, Speechpad is also a great company and we like their values! So we decided to stick with them. Wistia launched their transcription service after we had been using Speechpad for a while, so rather than just jump ship on Speechpad we stuck with them because we think they are cool. We also think Wistia is the coolest ever and have stuck with them and will continue to until the world ends ;).

Also, check this out! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tips-for-filming-whiteboard-presentations  I wrote a blog post about a lot of our processes for WBF. It could be helpful for you in the future.