the Verli guides
Practical, honest guides on capturing, transcribing, and translating audio: what the built-in tools can do, and what to reach for when they cannot.
Three working ways to translate a YouTube video to English: YouTube's built-in caption translation, auto-dubbing, and live translation for videos with no captions at all.
How to capture audio from a Chrome tab without an extension: the built-in tab sharing API, what happened to the old capture extensions, and what you can do with the audio.
macOS will not record its own audio output out of the box. Three working approaches: a capture app, the BlackHole loopback driver with QuickTime, and skipping the recording when what you want is a transcript.
Zoom's built-in transcription needs the right plan and host settings. Here is how to enable it, and how to transcribe any Zoom meeting from your own side when you are not the host.
How to translate audio to text in another language: live audio (meetings, videos, calls) versus recorded files, which tools fit each, and how to get clean results.
Get the full text of a YouTube video: the built-in transcript panel, what to do when the transcript button is missing, and live transcripts for streams and no-caption videos.