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brin_bellway) wrote2021-06-28 09:13 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2021-06-28 09:13 pm
The awkward transitional period of history we are currently living through
In which *some* but not *all* podcasts use auto-transcripts, so you can't immediately disregard something for being a podcast.
I was hoping Just Plain Wrong had a text version. :(
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Listen Notes informs me that Google is willing to run their auto-transcriber on anything played through Google Chrome (not just Youtube videos), but 1: fuck Google Chrome, and 2: it sounds like it only *captions* rather than transcribing per se, so a 36-minute episode would require 36 minutes of hanging around watching for each new word/line to pop up (as opposed to dumping the audio into a processing queue, going off to do other things, and getting all the text at once later).
I was hoping Just Plain Wrong had a text version. :(
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Listen Notes informs me that Google is willing to run their auto-transcriber on anything played through Google Chrome (not just Youtube videos), but 1: fuck Google Chrome, and 2: it sounds like it only *captions* rather than transcribing per se, so a 36-minute episode would require 36 minutes of hanging around watching for each new word/line to pop up (as opposed to dumping the audio into a processing queue, going off to do other things, and getting all the text at once later).
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it's feels like, idk, designing your website so all the text input gets automatically converted to a jpg
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Part of me feels a little weird being upset about it because it wasn't very long ago that the tech for this just didn't exist. Things *have* gotten a *lot* better. ...but they *could* have gotten a lot better even than this, if Google's values were better aligned.