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A FTA TV Transcription Side-Project Becomes a Popular Tool for Journalists
- mynegation 5y agoGoing into this article I thought it would be a site that captures TV audio streams and runs a speech recognition, and how does it handle the computing and potentially SR API costs. But - spoiler - it turns out it captures closed captions provided by TV networks and saves them. That struck me (a) as an example of something relatively simple that has a huge importance - keeping politicians accountable and governance transparent and (b) an example that accessibility technologies - while hugely important for differently able people - are important for much wider audiences as well.
- pabs3 5y agoSeems like the TV networks should just be publishing those captions in more places; on their websites, on social media, on archive.org etc.
- deepfriedbits 5y agoSnapstream employs similar tech. It's how shows like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight can quickly and easily find segments where certain words or phrases are used on television.