Riverbend Stories

Audio stories

Interviews and field recordings — every one with a transcript.

Listen, or read

Audio is easy to publish and easy to lose people with

Every recording on this page has a transcript folded underneath it, so anyone can follow the story with the sound off.

Nineteen seasons on the gravel bar

Recorded in the field hut, October

Placeholder recording — replace with your own audio file.

Ray Whitfield has counted returning salmon on this stretch of river since 2007.

Rain on the water

Public boat launch, the morning nobody turned up

Placeholder recording — replace with your own audio file.

Twenty minutes of rain at the boat launch. This is the two-minute edit.

Transcripts

Ray Whitfield: People assume there is a machine for this. There is. It is me.
Interviewer: Nineteen seasons. Do you remember the first one?
Ray: I remember the notebook. Green cover. I still have it.

Sample transcript. Replace this with a transcript of your own recording — it makes your work usable by people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and it makes it searchable.

[Twenty seconds of rain on open water. No speech.]
Narration: Day four at the boat launch. Nobody came. We stayed anyway.

Sample transcript. For a recording with no speech, describe what a listener would hear.

Adding your own audio

Add an Audio block, upload an MP3 or M4A file, and type a caption underneath. Put the transcript in an accordion — the Standard block with accordion pattern in the Patterns library does exactly this — so the page stays short but nothing is hidden from anyone who needs to read it. Keep files under the upload limit shown on the Media screen; if a recording is long, split it into parts.