Talk:Audio Whitepaper

White papers are not easy to get created. Companies generally get their most knowledgeable technicians or engineers to create these documents explaining new technologies or techniques. They spend a significant amount of time to ensure that their technical explanations are correct. Once written, they send it around to various reviewers who start to make recommendations, especially that they "dumb it down" so that the avaerage reader can understand. After all, we have all been schooled to write at an 8th grade level. This "dumbing down" adds weeks, if not months, to the overall creation process and drives the writers crazy.

Contrast this with allowing the expert to write the paper they want to write it and support it with an audio interview with the writer describing the content of the paper in their own voice. This would probably take less than 30 minutes as opposed to the weeks of refining and simplifying the paper content. Although people are schooled to write at an 8th grade level, no one tells us to speak at an 8th grade level.