writing

writing about transcription that doesn't sound like a marketing page.

we publish when there's a real result to share. the metric that actually predicts your time, the audit you can run yourself to verify a privacy claim, the things the category has been quietly wrong about for thirty years.

  1. what HIPAA actually requires of an AI transcription tool

    9 min read

    HIPAA isn't just a BAA. the actual safeguards a transcription tool has to meet — physical, technical, administrative — and where on-device transcription removes whole categories of compliance work.

  2. the diarization fragility test

    8 min read

    speaker diarization is the weakest part of every commercial AI transcription product in 2026. we tried to break it five different ways across every tool we could get our hands on. results.

  3. the cleanup tax

    6 min read

    every transcription buyer pays a tax in time after the file arrives. it doesn't appear on the invoice. here's how big it is and where the money goes.

  4. WER is a useless buyer metric

    6 min read

    word error rate is the headline number every transcription vendor markets against. it tells you nothing about whether the transcript will save you time. what to ask vendors instead.

  5. how to audit a browser-based transcription tool

    7 min read

    any tool can claim 'on-device.' here's how to verify it: open the network tab, drop the audio in, watch what happens. the audit takes five minutes.

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