Thanks for the suggestion, Nords. I hope to be able to provide transcripts in the future, but I'm not able to do it yet.
My show is a daily show intended to essentially be a replacement for people with an above average interest for in-depth financial conversation. Because it's daily, it consumes a large amount of my day just creating and producing and releasing the content! There are lots of things I don't have the resources to do and transcripts are one of them.
If you know someone who wants to transcribe the one show though, I'll publish it!
"Daily" is a brutal schedule, but it forces you to be highly focused and exploit all the tricks of batch processing!
I think the only way to handle transcripts is outsourcing, and of course that's not automated or free.
Transcripts are controversial. You're either doing a podcast to reach a totally new audience, and they'll listen instead of reading a transcript. They might not even read your blog. Or you're doing a podcast to give your current readers a new way to hear your material (during the drive or the workout) and they'll want the transcript for the links. Personally I can read a transcript in a fraction of the time that I'm using headphones, and when I'm trying to search for something weeks or months later then the transcript is more likely to come up on Google than the audio. But I'm highly visual reader and I don't enjoy watching TV or listening to a sound track. I can barely sit through a movie.
I guess my opinion on podcast transcripts is "If Pat Flynn does it, there must be a profit motive". I'm sure he gets a lot of affiliate links into the transcript, even if he doesn't charge the podcast sponsor an extra fee for the transcript plug. He uses SpeechPad.
By the way, will you be at FinCon14 this year? I thought I saw a note somewhere of your being there last year?
I will! My spouse is coming along too. We haven't been to New Orleans in over 30 years, so I'm almost sure the statute of limitations has expired from the shenanigans of our last Mardi Gras. We're arriving a day before (jet lag) and staying a few more days after (sightseeing).
This will be my third FinCon, and I'm looking forward to catching up with people in person and seeing what's changed from last year. This year I'm adding in Crystal's blogger camp because it looked like everyone was having a great time there last year. I'm also doing the sponsor speed-dating event just to see what it's like, and to let them know that they have military customers too.
I'll be the middle-aged balding ponytailed surf geezer in an aloha shirt and rubber slippers-- probably with a cup of coffee.