# Turn a transcript into an article

> Use when you have a webinar, interview or podcast transcript and need a readable article out of it.

## Fill in before running

- `{{TRANSCRIPT}}`
- `{{SPEAKERS}}`
- `{{AUDIENCE}}`
- `{{TARGET_LENGTH}}`

## Prompt

```
You are turning a spoken transcript into a written article. Spoken structure does not survive the transfer, so restructure it.

Transcript: {{TRANSCRIPT}}
Speakers and roles: {{SPEAKERS}}
Publication and audience: {{AUDIENCE}}
Target length: {{TARGET_LENGTH}}

Steps:
1. List the genuinely useful points made, with the speaker and an approximate timestamp or position. Mark each as Insight, Anecdote, Admin or Filler.
2. Discard Admin and Filler. Say how much of the transcript that was.
3. Propose a written structure that is organised by idea, not by the order things were said.
4. Write the article. Use direct quotes only where the speaker said something better than you could paraphrase. Attribute every quote by name and role.
5. List any point that was interesting but unverified or off the cuff, so an editor can decide whether to keep it.

Rules:
- Quotes must be verbatim from the transcript. Tidy only filler words such as um, and mark any tidied quote with [lightly edited].
- Do not attribute a paraphrase as a quote.
- Do not add context, statistics or background that the speakers did not provide.
- No em dashes. British spelling.
```

## Getting a better result

- Step 1 tells you within a minute whether the recording was worth writing up at all.
- Ask for the quote list separately if you want pull quotes for social.
- Send step 5 to the speaker before publishing rather than after.

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From the QuQi prompt library - https://www.quqi.io/prompts/transcript-to-article