{"id":73749,"date":"2024-01-11T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=73749"},"modified":"2024-01-11T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:17:34","slug":"video-v-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/11\/video-v-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Video v Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, I tried to produce a podcast called The Account, and for all sorts of reasons, it did not really work. To be candid, everything took too long to produce because multiple software tasks were involved.<\/p>\n<p>A year on, it seems that a number of platforms have made massive advances in an attempt to solve this commonly faced problem and that this exercise might now be considerably easier.<\/p>\n<p>However, before spending much time on this, it is clear that a pretty fundamental question has to be answered, and that is whether the right approach is to produce video or audio only.<\/p>\n<p>I will be candid: video will simply be me as a talking head. Appreciating that most people I have discussed this with, including those who are younger than the average reader here, say that they would probably prefer a podcast, audio-only format.<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-109\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If I was going to increase spoken output on the blog what medium would you prefer?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-109-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Audio i.e. podcast style? <small>(64%, 174 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 64%;\" title=\"Audio i.e. podcast style? (64% | 174 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Video .e.g. Youtube <small>(20%, 53 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 20%;\" title=\"Video .e.g. Youtube (20% | 53 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Don't do it! <small>(16%, 44 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 16%;\" title=\"Don&#039;t do it! (16% | 44 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>271<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_109_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"9506d4a0b4\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-109-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p>And for those who ask, it seems producing transcripts is now a lot easier, even if they are AI-generated, but they seem pretty good, so I would always plan to post them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago, I tried to produce a podcast called The Account, and for all sorts of reasons, it did not really work. To<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/11\/video-v-podcast\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73751,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749\/revisions\/73751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}