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Capture at the highest resolution; you can always go lower

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if word for word is just simply the best? You can always go lower resolution you can't go higher.

Episode 128: Fully Fingered (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:11:27 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Arguing for word-level timestamps in JSON transcripts over line-based SRT: once you have the finest detail you can derive coarser versions, but never the other way around. Word-level timing also enables clipping by transcript on a phone.