Meet Our Editorial Team

The expert writers and technologists behind every FastlyConvert guide.

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At FastlyConvert, we believe that technical guides should be as reliable as the tools they describe. Our editorial team follows a strict "hands-on first" policy: every workflow, conversion setting, and comparison mentioned in our articles is tested personally by our editors using real-world files and hardware.

We focus on providing practical, jargon-free explanations that help you get your work done faster. Whether you're a podcaster optimizing a FLAC file or an archivist ensuring PDF/A compliance, our goal is to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information in the industry.

We update our content regularly to reflect the latest advancements in AI transcription, document parsing, and media codecs. For more details on how we produce our content, please visit our Editorial Policy.

Daniel Cheng

Senior Editor, Audio & Video

Daniel Cheng leads FastlyConvert's audio and video editorial coverage. With 4+ years building SaaS backend systems for media processing pipelines, he's worked extensively with FFmpeg, Whisper AI, and codec optimization. His writing focuses on practical guides for podcasters, content creators, and meeting professionals who need reliable transcription and conversion workflows. Daniel believes the best technical writing combines hands-on testing with clear, jargon-free explanations.

Specialties

Audio format conversion (MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A) Video transcoding Speech-to-text (Whisper AI) Text-to-speech Podcast workflows Meeting transcription

article Articles by Daniel

AI Text-to-Speech vs Human Voiceoverarrow_forward Audio Format Conversion Guidearrow_forward Best Audio Formats for Podcasts & Musicarrow_forward Best Audio to Text Converters 2026arrow_forward Best Free Text-to-Speech Toolsarrow_forward Top Speech Recognition Softwarearrow_forward How to Compress Video for Emailarrow_forward Convert iPhone MOV to MP4arrow_forward Convert Voice Memos to Textarrow_forward How to Extract Audio from Videoarrow_forward Transcribe Audio in MS Wordarrow_forward Ultimate Meeting Transcription Guidearrow_forward AI Transcription for Meeting Notesarrow_forward Improving Speech-to-Text Accuracyarrow_forward Future of TTS Technologyarrow_forward Transcribe Voice Recordingsarrow_forward

Sarah Mitchell

Senior Editor, Documents & Images

Sarah Mitchell oversees FastlyConvert's documents and images editorial coverage. Drawing on 6+ years working in document processing and digital archives, she's tested countless PDF parsers, image converters, and OCR engines across enterprise workflows. She specializes in helping readers navigate the messy reality of document conversion — where character encoding, font embedding, and color profiles can make or break a project. Sarah's pieces lean on side-by-side comparisons and reproducible test cases.

Specialties

PDF/A archival format PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint Image format conversion (HEIC/JPG/PNG/WebP/AVIF) Image compression OCR for scanned PDFs

article Articles by Sarah

Best Image Formats for Web Perfarrow_forward Why Browser-First Conversion Mattersarrow_forward Preserving PDF to Word Formattingarrow_forward How to Convert Scanned PDF to Wordarrow_forward FastlyConvert vs CloudConvertarrow_forward FastlyConvert vs iLovePDFarrow_forward FastlyConvert vs Smallpdfarrow_forward FastlyConvert vs Zamzararrow_forward HEIC vs JPG vs WebParrow_forward PDF/A Compliance for Archivesarrow_forward PNG vs JPG: When to Use Which?arrow_forward Pro Tips to Reduce Image Sizearrow_forward What is Browser-Based Conversion?arrow_forward How OCR Works for Scanned PDFsarrow_forward Why PDF to Word is Technically Hardarrow_forward

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