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Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote2022-02-24 08:06 pm

Still in an awkward transitional period of history, but definitely further along now

(previously on)

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The Youtube auto-transcriber now gives you the option of seeing the entire transcript at once, rather than having to wait for each line of caption to pop up: click on the three-dot menu (next to "Save"), then click "Open transcript". And yes, that podcast I was looking at earlier has a Youtube mirror now.

The main downside is that it doesn't distinguish between different speakers. That's fine for one-person speeches, but gets a bit confusing with a three-host podcast. There's also still some issues with homophones, obscure proper nouns, and occasionally mistaking obscure words for more common ones that aren't *quite* homophones, but it's pretty easy to figure out what it meant on those.

It was interesting to note that the auto-transcriber *does* know how to spell "nanowrimo", and knows that a string of words occurring after "you can also find us on twitter or instagram at" should be run together into one word.

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