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Err, 16 hours just to read. Then you still need to deal with the inaccuracies of speech to text.

weaksauce 2y ago
so what? it's 10 years of notes. even if you double or triple or quadruple the time editing it for inaccuracies it's still better than an ocr almost certainly.
bongodongobob 2y ago
Have 4 people do it and you're done by lunch.
- Someone 2y ago
  If their handwriting is like mine, i think it will take more time that way. The other people will be interrupting them every second to ask “what’s that word?”. Eventually, they’ll learn and speed will go up, but with this amount of work, work will be finished before they make up for the learning curve.
lallysingh 2y ago
Do it over 2 weekends. Or an hour a night instead of TV.
DonsDiscountGas 2y ago
Since OP is doing this deliberately for speech2text they will presumably enunciate very clearly and have a good mic. S2T has very good performance under ideal conditions like that
IanCal 2y ago
Modern speech to text is, for me, extremely accurate. You also have the original audio and can rerun things as and when technology improves.
- harlanji 2y ago
  Yea, I use a cheapie voice recorder that only saves .wav files for ~10 memos per day, and Whisper transcripts are good. "Tiny" model, 4GB ram laptop. "Base" model runs too, but slower, and produces different inaccuracies. But overall, if I were suggest an ideal process: 1) transcribe notes w/ Whisper, 2) play back the media in VLC with the transcripts and correct the errors. T = 16 hours of proofing/correction + ~8 hours of headless transcription of *.wav before hand.
  - neverokay 2y ago
    I’d add that I had better luck using smaller chunks (about 20 seconds) per wav file for accuracy. Whisper seems to go berserk if you pump in lengthy audio (30+ seconds). I’d be tempted to at least try breaking down the notes into one line long images (about a sentence) each and give it ago with Gemini. I haven’t tested their ocr, but even if it has errors, I bet you could just ask Gemini again to best fix the sentence.
    - IanCal 2y ago
      Whisper works on 30s chunks iirc. You need to use something that's automatically splitting up your input if it's longer.

so what? it's 10 years of notes. even if you double or triple or quadruple the time editing it for inaccuracies it's still better than an ocr almost certainly.

bongodongobob 2y ago

Have 4 people do it and you're done by lunch.

Someone 2y ago
If their handwriting is like mine, i think it will take more time that way. The other people will be interrupting them every second to ask “what’s that word?”. Eventually, they’ll learn and speed will go up, but with this amount of work, work will be finished before they make up for the learning curve.

lallysingh 2y ago

Do it over 2 weekends. Or an hour a night instead of TV.

DonsDiscountGas 2y ago

Since OP is doing this deliberately for speech2text they will presumably enunciate very clearly and have a good mic. S2T has very good performance under ideal conditions like that

IanCal 2y ago

Modern speech to text is, for me, extremely accurate. You also have the original audio and can rerun things as and when technology improves.

harlanji 2y ago
Yea, I use a cheapie voice recorder that only saves .wav files for ~10 memos per day, and Whisper transcripts are good. "Tiny" model, 4GB ram laptop. "Base" model runs too, but slower, and produces different inaccuracies. But overall, if I were suggest an ideal process: 1) transcribe notes w/ Whisper, 2) play back the media in VLC with the transcripts and correct the errors. T = 16 hours of proofing/correction + ~8 hours of headless transcription of *.wav before hand.
- neverokay 2y ago
  I’d add that I had better luck using smaller chunks (about 20 seconds) per wav file for accuracy. Whisper seems to go berserk if you pump in lengthy audio (30+ seconds). I’d be tempted to at least try breaking down the notes into one line long images (about a sentence) each and give it ago with Gemini. I haven’t tested their ocr, but even if it has errors, I bet you could just ask Gemini again to best fix the sentence.
  - IanCal 2y ago
    Whisper works on 30s chunks iirc. You need to use something that's automatically splitting up your input if it's longer.