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Adafruit Founder Limor Fried: Open-Source Hardware Revolution [video]
- Lowkeyloki 7y agoI love Lady Ada. But I wish I could just read this instead of having to watch a video.
- vorpalhex 7y agoLikewise. Transcription is cheap these days!
- sametmax 7y agoHow so ?
- vorpalhex 7y agoAutomated transcription can get you 80-90% of the way now, meaning hand transcription (if needed) only requires a light touch. Transcription has gone from very expensive to now submitting your video to an API and getting back your transcript in a few hours for a few dollars ($0.10 - $1 a minute). Even at a very high rate, that's only $26 for the linked video.
- coolspot 7y agoAlso youtube does it for every video for free. See link in the comment above.
- jolmg 7y agoDoes anyone know of a good offline audio transcription software on linux or an open source project that attempts to make one?
- unfocused 7y agoThere this python tutorial for it, but you also need ffmpeg: https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ Not sure if that helps you or not.
- jolmg 7y agoThe tutorial itself uses Google, but the library seems to support CMUSphinx. Its documentation seems interesting: https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/ https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/
- opencl 7y agoThere are a few attempts, I have no idea how good they are. And they're manual transcription only. There are several open source speech recognition systems (like Deepspeech and CMUSphinx) but there don't seem to be any user-friendly frontends for them. http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans
- Barrin92 7y agomozilla has open source projects for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, among other things https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://voice.mozilla.org/en https://voice.mozilla.org/en
- sametmax 7y agoI don't know, automatic subtitles on youtube suck for anything that is not average tone, voice, speed or vocabulary. Not to mention if you don't speak english. Paying $26 for something similar doesn't feel good value. We've tried something like this during a french python conf to get subtitles for deaf people. It was impossible to even understand the result.
- HillaryBriss 7y ago> ... for death people automated subtitles are bad, i agree. but, in this case, the murderer was autocorrect.
- CamperBob2 7y agoHave you checked lately? Automated subtitles on YouTube are getting ridiculously good. They're currently almost as good as I am at recognizing speech, including accented speech and in many cases specialized technical terms.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoIn my experience, they're only good when I don't need them. If the audio is clear, it's astonishingly accurate (except for the lack of punctuation). But for heavily accented speech, or if there's any background noise, or there are multiple speakers, it completely fails, and it's better to go find a pair of headphones and turn up the volume. Also, I hate how the auto-generated CC spits out one word at a time while scrolling the lines up, and how it keeps the previous caption on screen mixed in with the next one during long moments of non-speech (if the speaker isn't in frame, it's hard to know what the context is). That's not how I read—it's not how anyone reads. I would rather it showed a single block at a time, with the current word highlighted. And what's with the random "yeah yeah yeah", "[applause]", or "[music]" captions when it's just guessing? Better to put question marks than be completely wrong. lack of punctuation and capitalisation also makes informal speech quite difficult to understand sentences just run into another makes it hard to know what's referring to what gets split into unnatural sentences... you get the point. However, automated CC is good when you're trying to find a particular part of a long video, and you don't want to watch the whole thing just to find it. It's easy to skim the captions to find a relevant part.
- coolspot 7y agohttps://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj https://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj
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- frosted-flakes 7y agoThis is from the "Open Transcript" option in the menu above the subscribe button, if anyone's wondering.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoI have so much respect for her. I tried to start an open hardware business and even with a big successful kickstarter I couldn’t do it. I always wanted to make great products and fun easy to follow tutorials, but I failed. Seeing her company dominate was at first discouraging but has become cathartic. Even though I never made those helpful products and tutorials, someone has. It helps me feel like my failure wasn’t that bad. I’m so glad Lady Ada and her team have been doing so well.
- baybal2 7y agoI can remember a great lot of people who managed to fail even on "hello world" level hardware businesses. Don't take this as some kind of discouragement. The prime majority of successful small electronics businesses do very simple things like utilitarian "bare PCB" gadgets. Olimex for example manages to get quite a lot of business despite being quite far away from Silicon valley's commotion (located in Plovdiv, a 350k people town) I knew a teen who managed to spin a simple WiFi tester on ESP32 commercially. Also, just a PCB with a lipo battery and an MCU. He's doing great despite amateur level EE and it being a very niche product (professional WiFi installers are much the only buyers) My own opinion, in electronics business you are always in between the Scylla and Charybdis of big and unprofitable businesses (commodity OEMs,) and niche/meme/fad products (hoverboards, vapers, and of course... the juicer)
- Junk_Collector 7y agoIt's a brutal space to operate in and seems to be getting worse all the time. Investment capital is scare. Product copies are rampant and hitting the market faster and faster to the point I even sometimes see copies reach store shelves before the original. Suppliers are increasingly consolidated and manufacturers can be hostile to little guys who need delivery schedules. Anyone who finds success in such a market has my respect and the fact the Limor has managed to not only succeed, but thrive in such an environment is a testament to how incredible she is.
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- burfog 7y agoWhen I saw "Fried", I though it was going to be about RF burns and a memorial service. Evidently, she's as OK as she ever was.
- avip 7y agoFried (-man) is a common East-European Jewish surname, from the German "peace". A moment of useless Genealogy...
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoMe too! I first parsed that sentence as: Subject: Proper name: Limor Title: Adafruit Founder Verb: fried (past tense of "fry"), as in "burned out".
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoAnd I thought "Limor" was just an alias and they typo'd "Fired", as in the founder of Adafruit was getting fired.
- mintplant 7y agoI absolutely love Adafruit tech for low-volume hardware hacking projects. Particularly the Feather nRF52832 [0]: onboard flash, Bluetooth Low Energy, a 5V-to-3.3V converter, and USB battery charging all in one little off-the-shelf board. And the runtime [1] and bootloader [2] are totally open! I'm tinkering with my own little fork to add signed updates, lock down the OTA DFU mechanism, and switch to a more secure BLE pairing mode. By the way, if anyone knows of an alternative to the RedBear Nano V2 [3] in terms of form factor and power profile, please let me know, since Particle is sadly killing that board off after buying out RedBear. Glad I don't have to worry about that with Adafruit. [0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 [1] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino [2] https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader [3] https://store.particle.io/products/redbear-nano-v2 https://store.particle.io/products/redbear-nano-v2
- codesushi42 7y agoHave you looked into an ESP32? It has on board WiFi and Bluetooth.
- mintplant 7y agoI have! Neat little chip, and I'll keep it in mind if I need WiFi in a future project.
- hartzell 7y agoI think that you wanted your first link to be: [0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3406
- mintplant 7y agoOops, yes. Fixed.
- jihadjihad 7y agoWhen I was in high school, I somehow came across her post on building an MP3 player and putting it into an Altoids tin[0]. The post was a formative experience in my life and spurred me to pursue an engineering degree! [0] http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html
- ntoll 7y agoLimor and Adafruit are an inspiration.
- bityard 7y agoMore than 10 years ago now, I built myself a few x0xb0xes, one of Limor's first projects. You could only buy the PCBs and had to source all of the other stuff yourself. I still have one somewhere, those were fun to build and had a great community. http://blog.bityard.net/category/electronics.html http://blog.bityard.net/category/electronics.html Very satisfying to see how big Adafruit has become.
- windexh8er 7y agoI backed your Kickstarter for Flutter. If I may be honest it was one of the most poorly executed of any I've backed (well over 30 on KS or IndieGogo). You delivered over a year late, from what I remember (I never received product as I'm likely one of the few you refunded), and there were slews of backers you promised things to individually that were "noisy". Groups of us communicated off of KS about the debacle and compared your comms. Your friends or family were posting to defend you which made the situation worse and more polarized. I will agree that you failed and hopefully you learned from it. Learned the importance of communication, the importance of being honest, the importance of following through. Not because of me, but because you've associated your name with the bad execution and because of that there's no way I'd be able to buy or back anything if I saw you were associated.
- dahart 7y agoMan, this seems unnecessarily harsh, and distracting from the positive props to Limor. He’s well aware of what happened, does it need to be rehashed here? Starting something is extremely difficult and most people fail. HN celebrates people who try.
- windexh8er 7y agoI believe you're right that HN celebrates people who try. The OPs comment didn't reflect the reality of the situation. And a huge part of HN is failure. Failure has many facets, for example we more often than expected lose great products marred by people and their bad choices. Limor is the antithesis to that. I've learned a ton from her work, and have built many random things using her contributions or designs. People should always keep in mind failing doesn't always just end there and is over. If you have success it's often a culmination of honesty, integrity, thoughtful design and timeliness. Delight your customer. I think Limor embodies that and, while harsh, my comment is not false. Something being run poorly should be just as much of a learning aspect as the opposite and a reflection point given the juxtaposition of the two. Limor has provided positively, to likely, millions of people in her career. Yes, be like Limor - and always have top of mind your users, your customers, your friends and family and how she's treated them. Because beyond the product many lose, or never had, the rest of the picture in sight.