# Turn an interview or podcast transcript into an ebook

Use interview, podcast, webinar, or call transcripts as source material for a structured nonfiction ebook.

Canonical: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/sources/transcripts
Category: Sources
Last reviewed: 2026-09-29

## Transcripts preserve the ideas, not the book structure

A transcript is valuable because it contains explanations, examples, objections, and the author's natural vocabulary. It is usually poor book structure: the conversation follows questions and detours rather than a reader's learning path.

For a text transcript, upload the file (TXT, Markdown, DOCX, VTT or SRT) or paste the relevant sections into Your Notes. If you still have the recording, you can instead upload a supported audio file and let Scribora transcribe it. The Analyze and Plan phases can then separate repeated ideas, group related material, and turn the conversation into a deliberate sequence.

## Clean only what changes meaning

- Remove long sections that are completely unrelated to the intended book.
- Keep concrete examples, disagreements, and stories even when the spoken wording is messy.
- Keep speaker labels when attribution matters.
- Do not flatten every sentence into formal prose before import; the transcript is useful evidence of voice.

## Choose the ingestion path based on what you actually have

- Text transcript: upload it as TXT, Markdown, DOCX, VTT or SRT (text files saved as UTF-8; subtitle cue numbers and timings are dropped; VTT speaker names are kept), or paste it into Your Notes, splitting very long conversations into coherent chunks if that makes later inspection easier.
- Original recording: upload MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, or WebM and let the audio parser create the transcript-backed source.
- Public transcript page: add its public HTTP/HTTPS URL if the page exposes extractable text.

> Older Word (.doc) and RTF transcripts are not accepted: save them as DOCX, or paste the text into Your Notes.