Who writes the Kotosay blog

Three editors who work with recordings, transcripts and subtitles. Each one writes about the part they know best.

Noemi Castell

Interviews and podcasts editor

Noemi works with recorded conversations: research interviews, oral history projects and podcast episodes. She writes about getting a clean recording, checking a transcript against the audio and turning a long talk into notes and quotes people can use.

Posts by Noemi Castell

How to transcribe a conversation, step by step

Yuki Halloran

Subtitle and caption editor

Yuki spends most of her working hours on timing and line breaks. She writes about SRT and VTT files, captions for viewers who watch without sound, subtitles in a second language and the small checks that keep a subtitle readable.

Posts by Yuki Halloran

Theo Mbatha

Recording guide

Theo records voices on whatever is at hand: phones, laptops and small field recorders. He writes about where to put the microphone, which settings matter and how to get a file from the phone to the computer without losing quality.

Posts by Theo Mbatha

How to record audio on iPhone for a clear transcript