The Making of A Curious Case: A Claude CoWork Project

Usually, I hold the “making of” posts for these fanfics until a bit later in the serialization, but I wanted to report on this one while my thoughts were fresh.

A Curious Case started out, the way all these AI-drafted fanfics do, with a story idea that I wanted to read but didn’t feel passionate enough to actually write. I knew it was going to be a long, complicated story to tell. I also discovered that Anthropic was running a promotion through most of June and the beginning of July that doubled the user’s session limits when working inside Claude CoWork.

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How to Use Claude.ai for Cleaning Up Transcriptions

This article is primarily about the Claude.ai feature called “projects,” but Dibakar Ghosh’s example project is about using Claude to cleanup the nasty, incoherent speech-to-text output that Word and similar programs spit out. I’ve tested the commands involved in the free version of Claude, and they work reasonably well. I still went back and reworded and expanded a bunch of stuff after I used it, but it was nice having something that would reliably cut out the nonsense words and repetitions and add some kind of punctuation. Here are the commands; just copy and paste into Claude’s chat window, and upload a short document with your latest chunk of dictation. As always with AI, check the company’s privacy and training policies before feeding it anything of a personal or sensitive nature.

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