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Yes, it is for SEO purposes and to build your own branding presence, and to be less dependant of other major platforms, in this case Youtube.

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?

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>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.

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