Simon WillisonAug 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

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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)

Annotated presentation creator

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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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A particularly fun detail of the https://til.simonwillison.net/tools/annotated-presentations tool is how it uses Tesseract.js OCR (running in the browser) to extract suggested alt= text from the images

I wrote more about that in this TIL: https://til.simonwillison.net/javascript/tesseract-ocr-javascript

Annotated presentation creator

Show threadSimon WillisonAug 6, 2023
I also shared four ChatGPT transcripts from sessions I used to help me pull together that annotated presentation tool https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/#chatgpt-sessions
How I make annotated presentations

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Show threadJames KingAug 7, 2023
@simon Thank you for sharing. Did you use Code Interpreter for those? They look like regular Chat GPT session transcripts.
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@simon Ah - answered my own question… Code Interpreter is Python only so doesn't make a lot of sense for a JS/HTML web-app.
Aug 7, 2023 at 10:42amWeb
Show threadSimon WillisonAug 7, 2023
@jamesking yeah I'd love to have a version of Code Interpreter that could show me rendered HTML and JavaScript for me to interact with