Tuesday, August 27, 2024

A transcription tip

If you’re watching TV and want to get down what someone is saying, you can, of course, rewind, pull out a phone, record, and hit play, pause, play, pause as you transcribe. But with a small stretch of text, there’s an easier way. Just write down the first letter of each word:

o b o e w s c o b w i t g n o e i a y n f p o t u s
Which you can then expand into:
“On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination for President of the United States.”
And then you can still rewind to check that you have it right.

comments: 3

ksh said...

Oh, boy! Our eels were slippery! Covered over by worms in tepid goo. Nibbling our eels in aspic, you never felt prouder of that ugly sauce.
With my memory, what could possibly go wrong?

Michael Leddy said...

Excellent!

Fresca said...

Lol, ksh!