Documenting the flow - voice memo to blog post

Below are the steps to record a voice memo and convert it to a blog post. Requires headphones with a microphone and the iphone with voice memo app.

Steps: Put headphones in ears. Start voice memo using quick action button on the side configured to Voice memo recording. Double check audio is being picked up through headphones. Put phone away.

Record the voice memo.

On phone, stop the recording. On computer, open Voice Memo app. Open the recording. Turn on view transcription. Control + click on a word to select word in the transcription. Type cmd + a to select all of the transcript. Type cmd + c to copy all of the transcript. Open VS Code. Run python generate_markdown_post.py to generate the markdown template file. Open file by control clicking on the console output that says “File created: ” Paste the transctipt into the post contents. Note - A popup may appear saying that the voice memo transcript contains special unicode characters to tell voice memos where to add new paragraph spaces. ‘Remove unusual Line Terminators’. There is a setting in vs code where you can have it automatically delete the characters, but the default of prompting each time is perfect for me. Better to not create side effects elsewhere. Open voice memo app. Relisten to the video. Edit transcript for correctness. Relisten to the voice memo and make note of inflections and excitement.

I ran through this process again with tomorrows posts. There are a few clunky things I need to work out on this. With the process defined it can then be refined.

Onwards and upwards.