Last week, I have done some experiments with transcribing podcasts, as it seemed a good idea to make information in the podcasts more accessible. (I do not like scrolling through podcasts of an hour of which I can read the transcript in 15 minutes).
I have tried Mac Speech Scribe with a presentation of Chuck Hill (Best Practices in WO, 2008) and of David Leber (Troubleshooting D2wRules, 2009) The way stiff stuff works is that you first train the application with a section of the text of the specific person, and then start transcribing it. The results, even after training, were …interesting. It seems David and Chuck both have a lot of interest in Iran, Cuba, moral, sections, and other anti-terror stuff. So after the first run through I then copied the transcript in transcripter software of Atze Spohr, to do corrections and add time indication (the app does that automatically). It takes about 30 minutes to do 10 minutes of podcast. David Holt pointed me to the Mechanical Turk, where you can ask people to do work for you: https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome Some people reported having transcripts done this way. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to use this tool, as I am not a citizen of the US of A. So my question is: Can anybody in located in the United States try to get a podcast transcribed to see if the quality is OK? (preferably one of the harder ones: Pascal because of his Quebec-english accent or Chuck because of the speed of his speak). It might be a rather cheap solution to have the podcasts transcribed (provided you don't mind having people working for you on sub-MacDonald's wages). Johan Henselmans [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
