Is this for SEO purposes, or is it some sort of plan B in case of Youtube takedowns or is it an attempt to build an on-platform following?
I like watching practical engineering, but I don't like reading video scripts, so while I understand that not everyone have their own preferences, I'm not really sure who this is for.
I mean, you answered your own question. I don't like watching videos that work just as well in text form, and I understand everyone has their own preferences.
Very thankful for the extremely few popular channels that do this!
1. He probably already wrote a script for his video before production. 2. Speech-to-text is quite good and cheap nowadays. So, why not?
It's gotten comparatively good. But my experience with podcasts was that if I wanted a professional transcript I'd put online--as opposed to this is the general gist of the thing that's better than nothing, possibly just for my own reference--I'd get it done by a person. Wasn't worth my time to do the extensive editing that would be required to polish it.