How to get a transcript from a page that only plays the audio
Paste the page link and tell Vizard Agent the broadcast date. The page plays audio it does not host, so the recording has to be resolved from the publisher's own index, checked against the details printed on the page, and only then transcribed. Otherwise you get a neighbouring episode, in full, with confidence.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the date in the first message if you know it, and say which part you want. Without the date, Vizard Agent has to infer which episode the page refers to, and a page that was updated after broadcast will happily point at a different recording than the one you were reading about.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It identifies the recording before it transcribes anything. A title and a date are weak evidence when a broadcaster publishes six related items in a morning, so Vizard Agent matches on the names of the people who made the programme, printed on the page. Here the player held a forty-four minute party leader interview inside a much longer morning broadcast. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the page, looked for a public audio reference behind the player and queried the broadcaster's own episode index rather than guessing a file name.
- Transcribed a first candidate in full, which turned out to be the wrong item.
- Narrowed the search to the stated date, compared two items from that day on subject matter, and verified the candidate against the presenters and producer named in the article.
- Located the full programme in the archive when the article's own reference wouldn't resolve, then cut the interview out of the broadcast.
- Transcribed the extract with timecodes and speakers, then went back for the final hundred seconds as a separate pass, because section boundaries are where questions get cut in half.
- Assembled one transcript from the main extract and the closing section, and delivered it as a downloadable text file.
When does this not work well?
Some audio can't be reached from a page at all. If the player streams from behind a login, a geographic restriction or a licence check, there's no public reference for Vizard Agent to resolve, and you need to supply the file yourself. Live streams have nothing to transcribe until they're published, and very old archives have often retired the reference.
Common questions
Can I just paste a link? Yes. Add the date as well, and Vizard Agent has far less to guess at.
How do I know it used the right recording? Vizard Agent tells you which item it matched, and on what evidence.
What if I already have the file? Upload it to Vizard Agent and skip the search; that path is much shorter.