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This is a very accurate description of the problem space. Every municipality has their own jargon, vernacular, and ways to communicate brevity which is key in
by blantonl 6y ago
This is a very accurate description of the problem space. Every municipality has their own jargon, vernacular, and ways to communicate brevity which is key in public safety communications. The communications are often digitized over vocoders that are less than optimal, and then you have the process of recovering voice from noisy communcations channels.
This is definitely a very hard problem to solve.
- jcims 6y agoIndeed. The only reason I know is that I tried a few years back and realized that I was asking the computer to do something that I couldn't even do. Anyone that doubts it, just listen to the NYPD feed and try to transcribe for just a minute or two. https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890 https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890 (edit: also, thank you for keeping this service up and running for so long, have been a regular user since the early RR days. Would love to have a comment/live chat option if your backlog is getting bare :))
- lunixbochs 6y agoOk, here we go: https://feeds.talonvoice.com https://feeds.talonvoice.com Repo is here if you need to report (or just fix :D) bugs in the webapp: https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds
- jcims 6y agoWhoa this is awesome! Love the option to fix a transcription, should hopefully help with training if you get some traction.
- lunixbochs 6y agoThanks! I did a lot of tests and no existing ASR I found could do it to 100%, so I'm using the best ASR I could find and hoping users will help with transcriptions if they want to see it succeed and scale.