The awkward transitional period of history we are currently living through

[brin_bellway]

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).

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

*sighs*.

(I haven't gotten used to any podcasts having transcripts at all and am thus still in the stone age of disregarding podcast sources... So you're ahead of me in that regard.)

[sigmaleph]

the very notion of having software that will generate captions but won't let you download it as a text file fills me with rage

it's feels like, idk, designing your website so all the text input gets automatically converted to a jpg