Queenstown.com
When you are interviewed on a local podcast
We work with local podcast makers to make their interviews findable. An hour of audio cannot be searched, so the twenty minutes where somebody talked about the thing you care about is effectively invisible. We fix that, and we send people to the original episode.
What we publish
A short extract of what you said, the point in the episode where you said it, your name, and a link to the full episode on the maker’s own channel. Usually that sits on a page about the subject, alongside council consultations and news on the same topic. We also list what each episode covers, a line per topic with its start time, which quotes nobody.
We ask you first
Nothing with your name on it is published unless you have agreed. Either you said yes when the presenter asked you on the recording, or we email you the exact extract, where it would appear and a link to hear it in context, and you answer yes, no, or maybe with what would need to change. Only a yes publishes it.
What we never do
We do not host or play the audio. We do not publish the full transcript. We do not write articles in your name or summarise your views as our own. We do not let software decide who said what. And we never present something you said in an interview as an established fact: if it matters, we go to the organisation that owns the information and cite them.
Who checks it
A person does, before you are ever asked. Automatic transcription makes mistakes, including confident ones that read perfectly well, so somebody listens to the audio and confirms the words against it. Nothing is published from a machine transcript alone.
Changing your mind
Tell us and we will take it down. You do not need a reason, and there is no time limit. Email will@queenstown.com.
See the shows we work with on Locals Voice.