There's an ongoing effort to transcribe episodes of the Metafilter Podcast. Using Fanscribed, we now have a good platform for letting people drop in and transcribe 30 seconds at a time, without special software. We've been using Fanscribed for a few months now; we've taken care of a dozen older episodes already.
Transcriptions make the audio content of the podcast available to the hearing impaired, and they're also helpful for people who would prefer to read than listen to the podcasts. We used to work on just the most recent podcast episode, and coordination was simpler - we could just discuss it in the episode thread. Now, the conversations about which older episodes are being worked on are getting scattered across Metatalk, hard to keep track of. A centralized thread here could be much easier to follow.
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