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Simon Willison Aug 6, 2023

I wrote about my process for publishing annotated versions of my talks - like my recent talk on LLMs - and shared a new tool I built to help with that progress, allowing me to OCR my slides for alt= attributes and type up annotations for them in Markdown

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/

How I make annotated presentations

Giving a talk is a lot of work. I go by a rule of thumb I learned from Damian Conway: a minimum of ten hours of preparation for every one …

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Simon Willison Aug 6, 2023

Here's the new tool I built: https://til.simonwillison.net/tools/annotated-presentations - plus an animated GIF showing how it can be used

(I used ChatGPT extensively in building it, the prompts I used are included in my write-up of the tool)

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Simon Willison Aug 6, 2023

I experimented with using Claude to clean up the YouTube transcript of my talk and turn it into text I could use in the annotated presentation - it did a pretty great job, though I ended up using just small portions and applying many of my own edits anyway

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Jesse Vincent

@simon the YouTube audio transcripts are surprisingly good. I’ve been starting to flirt with using whisper instead whisper seems to do a better job of generating the sentence you meant to say, but I’m not sure that’s better.