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Castos Creator Spotlight: Erik and Kris from Examining
 

In July 2020, with classrooms shut down, Erik Christiansen and Kris Hans started a podcast to help teachers survive the scramble to online class and called it EdTech Examined.

Five years later it's just Examining, and the two Calgary technologists dig into AI, privacy, and productivity, the tools people actually use to get work done.

Erik is an information professional who spends his days teaching people how to cut through noise and find what they actually need.

Kris teaches business and design thinking at two Calgary universities and reads new tech for why it matters, not the spec sheet.

A librarian's instinct and a strategist's eye, traded back and forth from opposite ends of the city. Together they make a tech show that takes the time to explain why things work the way they do.

Read Erik and Kris' Castos Creator Spotlight here.

Examining is two hosts plus a rotating cast of guests, exactly the kind of show that fills a transcript with unnamed voices. We just shipped a fix for that.

Put real names in your transcripts
 

Your transcripts no longer have to say "Speaker A" and "Speaker B."

You can now swap those generic labels for real names right inside the episode editor.

Open the episode, find the transcript, and click Rename Speakers. Type a name for each voice, or pick a saved host from the dropdown menu.

Named speakers read better, help your SEO, and make quotes easy to pull for show notes and social. It's included with transcription on every Castos plan, nothing to turn on.

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