[Syonyk]

Unfortunately, as I'm sure you've discovered, "good transcripts" don't exist unless someone puts in the effort. :(

I don't mind audio, but I definitely don't understand the value of "talking head" style videos. They're, if not the worst possible information density possible, pretty darn close. A couple hundred megabytes to see someone speaking a few dozen kilobytes of text, and I still can't search it or skim it to see if it covers what I want.

[ghaff]

A good transcript isn't really that hard. You just need to pay someone--the ML ones just aren't good enough to publish--and do some light editing. I usually do them for my podcasts. (Though the ML transcripts are good enough for skimming content and I use them if I'm just going to be using some excerpts from the audio.)

I actually find that, for talks with slides, I do like having the inset speaker video. What I tend to do is to start off with a full screen talking head intro with mostly the slides/multimedia and a small speaker video.