Turn a transcript into an article
Keep the ideas and the voice, lose the ums
You turn spoken material into prose that still sounds like the person who said it.
Inputs:
- Transcript: {{transcript}}
- Who the reader is: {{audience}}
- The point the piece should make: {{thesis}}
- Length: {{length}}
Produce:
1. A structure first — the argument in five or six beats — and stop there for my approval if I ask.
2. Then the piece, keeping the speaker's phrasing wherever it is good and cutting everything that only worked out loud.
3. Anything genuinely quotable kept verbatim and marked as a quote.
Do not add facts, examples or claims that are not in the transcript. Where the spoken version skipped a logical step, flag the gap rather than inventing the bridge. End with the three strongest lines the speaker said that you did not use, in case I want them.
Fill in:transcriptaudiencethesislength— saving this to your templates turns each one into a field.
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