Workflow steps

High level overview

Pre-requisites for getting the episode completed:

• Dr Pam’s intro and outro
• “Ask Dr Pam” segment
• Interviewee bio
• Runsheet for what Adverts to include
• Edited Episode audio
• Edited Episode transcript (for deaf and deafblind)

Setup Zoom meeting

• Zoom meet settings need to be: auto record, set to cloud, people can join anytime
• Once interview finished, wait for recording to process
• Copy “EpxTEMPLATE-Descript” folder and rename to “Episode x - Interview with <Name>”
• Download the RAW audio files from Zoom into “RAW” folder

Descript

Edit Interview

• Create new folder in “Episodes\In-Progress" folder, named “Episode x -Interview with <Name>”

Apps like Descript, when you export .vtt subtitle files, will not tag the speakers on every 42 character line output, they only voice tag on speaker changes. This does not currently allow podcasting distributors like Pinecast to recognize the speakers and format the transcript accordingly. These platforms expect speaker tagging on ALL separate 42 character subtitle lines. For a Disability podcast like Disability Disrupters that must have captions and transcriptions available for each Episode, this missing feature for Descript is a major manual time waster for me, per Episode. Here’s where I lodged the bug report with Descript in August 2024, before solving it with my janky python script - upvote if you agree that Descript should solve this, so we don’t have to do these crazy script hacks.