Came across this self-made speech to text transcriber on the deaf sub reddit. I would love to have this for live conversations. I do not need one for the phone.

While my Speaksee (currently not working due to software issues) is great, it is expensive, and I depend on state funding (for work only) to use it.

If someone in the Netherlands with Raspberry Pi skills wants to make one I want to pay for it 😀

(I assume Dutch transcribing is possible too)

https://github.com/andygmassey/telephone-and-conversation-transcriber

#Deaf #Transcribing #RaspberryPi

Conference VOD is good, quickly-available conference VOD is better

LISBON

With hundreds of panels spread across 15 stages, keeping up with the programming at Web Summit here has once again been impossible–but even catching the entirety of panels in this conference’s densely-packed schedule while also making it to my own meetings and finding time to write has been a challenge.

Which is why I have to commend the conference app that has been the subject of earlier gripes here for doing one thing quite well: video on demand of sessions on side stages. And Web Summit’s app has been serving this up not days or weeks later as at other conferences I’ve covered lately, but often minutes after a session wraps.

For center-stage programming, I’ve had the same option any of you do at home: Web Summit’s YouTube live video. This has also offered me the option of viewing on my laptop, although on any size of screen the YouTube feed comes with ad breaks.

Both of these options have bailed me out multiple times when I’ve taken too long to get from one place to another or just lost track of time.

(Note: The schedule included three panels I moderated, in return for which the organizers once again covered my lodging and are reimbursing my airfare.)

Having this resource at hand has also helped me do my job in a less obvious way: I can easily verify that my notes have somebody’s remarks and other panel details correct by skipping to that point in the recording.

This is a good and useful thing for a conference to do for its attendees. And while it might be a bit much to hope that other gatherings match Web Summit’s events in such aspects as, say, speaker-lounge catering, quickly-available VOD shouldn’t be as scarce as it is today.

#conference #conferencePanels #conferenceStreaming #conferenceVideo #Lisboa #Lisbon #panels #Portugal #transcribing #videoOnDemand #VOD #WebSummit

Gawwwd, what I wouldn't give for another musician with a better ear / transcription skills than me to bounce things off. I do "okay" but I've got a 6/8 song with random measures of 3/8 and 4/8 and I think it switches to 4/4 for the chorus… sigh. This is what comes of being a lyrics-first writer.

… With a choral background, where changing meter is more common than not. 🙃

Wow! I have been trying to find this #song for over four decades. I heard it on a #cassette tape and absolutely loved it. ❤️

I took it to my high school French #teacher, and in her usual helpful and encouraging manner she claimed she couldn't understand it at all and so couldn't help me with any aspect of #transcribing or even #translating it. 🙄

I could understand some of the words, but not enough of them to be able to ever hope to translate it. The few bits I caught led me to suspect it was a song about the Lord Randall poisoning story, but I see now that I am incorrect. 🙂

Gorgeous song nonetheless. ❤️❤️❤️

Ce matin sans hésiter · Jim Corcoran · Bertrand Gosselin

https://youtu.be/yOMVsxi8vcA

#music
#musique
#french
#français
#Corcoran
#Gosselin

Can you read cursive? It's a #superpower the #NationalArchives is looking for.

More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the #RevolutionaryWar era are #handwritten in #cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship
#history

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/

A thing I'm doing this summer at the London International Palaeography School.

'Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts: Palaeography after 1700'.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/course-descriptions/transcribing-and-editing-manuscripts

#palaeography #manuscripts #archives #editing #transcribing #handwriting