What Is ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)? How It Works, and What Drives Accuracy
ASR — automatic speech recognition — is the technology that turns spoken audio into text. This is a plain-English explainer: what ASR is, how the pipeline actually works, the factors that make one recording transcribe cleanly and another come back full of errors, and how ASR compares to human transcription. Written by someone who runs a transcription tool, with every technical claim sourced to public documentation.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
Best AI Meeting Assistant 2026: Fathom vs Otter vs Fireflies vs Subanana
An honest, documentation-based comparison of four AI meeting assistants — Fathom, Otter, Fireflies, and Subanana — across accuracy approach, language coverage, summary quality, integrations, and pricing. Every figure comes from each tool's published docs.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
How to Transcribe Zoom Meetings: Native Features, Cloud Recordings & Best Alternatives
Transcribe Zoom meetings effortlessly with our expert guide. Explore Zoom's native tools, live captions, editing tips, and FAQs for better records, productivity and inclusivity!
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
Google Meet Transcription: A Practical Guide to Saved Transcripts, Languages, and AI Notes
Google Meet can save a transcript and even take AI meeting notes — but only in 8 languages, only on a paid Workspace edition, and the saved record skips Chinese entirely. This guide explains exactly what Meet's built-in transcript and Gemini notes do, where the limits are, and when it's worth using Subanana to get a structured, multilingual meeting record with speaker labels and an AI summary.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
Subanana vs Happy Scribe (2026): A Documentation-Based Comparison
Happy Scribe leads on language breadth and a human-verified transcription option. Subanana leads on harder real-world audio — mixed-language, code-switched, accented, and multi-speaker recordings — plus live multilingual event captioning. Different jobs — here's how to tell which one matches your work.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
AI Note Taker for Microsoft Teams (2026): The Best Options
A documentation-based roundup of the best AI note takers for Microsoft Teams in 2026 — bot vs bot-free capture, free tiers, language coverage, and which one fits your meetings.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
AI Meeting Notes: How AI Captures Decisions, Action Items, and Summaries (and How to Pick a Note-Taker)
AI meeting notes turn a recorded call into a structured record — a clean transcript, a summary, the decisions, and who owns which action item. Here's how that capture works, and how to choose a note-taker that fits the meetings you run.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
Live Captions for Multilingual Events (2026): A Practical Guide
Built-in Zoom / Google Meet captions cover the basics for an English-only meeting. They don't cover the harder case: a conference with attendees who speak different languages, where each person needs the live captions in their own language on their own device. Here's how that actually works, and the tools that make it practical without a five-figure enterprise contract.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
How to Add Subtitles in iMovie (2026): iPhone, iPad & Mac Workflow
iMovie has no built-in speech-to-text, so subtitles are manual Title overlays. This guide covers iMovie's manual subtitle method on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — plus a faster workflow using Subanana to auto-generate SRT and burn captions in via a SRT-capable editor.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-25
How to Transcribe and Translate Any Language to English with AI
To turn non-English audio or video into English, you transcribe the speech first and then translate the text — two steps, not one. AI does the heavy lifting well now, but some languages are far harder to get right than others. This guide walks the general workflow and shows where AI shines and where you still do the work, with real examples from the tough cases.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-24
Subanana vs Tactiq (2026): Documentation-Based Comparison for Meeting Transcription
Tactiq is a Chrome-extension transcription tool focused on Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. This compares Tactiq and Subanana on pricing, language support, integrations, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-24
Open Captions vs Closed Captions (and SDH): What's the Difference?
Closed captions can be switched off; open captions are burned into the picture and can't. SDH is a third thing again. Here's what each one actually is, what accessibility law (FCC, ADA) and the WCAG standard require, and how to choose — with the definitions sourced to the standards bodies that set them.
KKevin Wong
2026-06-24