Audio stories
Interviews and field recordings from the riverbank — every one with a transcript.
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Audio is easy to publish and easy to lose people with. Every recording on this page has a transcript folded underneath it, so anyone can follow the story with the sound off.
Nineteen seasons on the gravel bar
Ray Whitfield has counted returning salmon on this stretch of river since 2007. Recorded in the field hut, October.
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Ray Whitfield: People assume there is a machine for this. There is. It is me.
Interviewer: Nineteen seasons. Do you remember the first one?
Ray: I remember the notebook. Green cover. I still have it.
Sample transcript. Replace this with a transcript of your own recording — it makes your work usable by people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and it makes it searchable.
Rain on the water
Twenty minutes of rain at the public boat launch, recorded on the morning nobody turned up. This is the two-minute edit.
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[Twenty seconds of rain on open water. No speech.]
Narration: Day four at the boat launch. Nobody came. We stayed anyway.
Sample transcript. For a recording with no speech, describe what a listener would hear.
Adding your own audio
Add an Audio block, upload an MP3 or M4A file, and type a caption underneath. Then add a Details block below it, set the summary to “Read the transcript”, and paste your transcript inside. Keep files under the upload limit shown on the Media screen; if a recording is long, split it into parts.