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Selezen
Egg
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Derby, UK
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Transcripts? |
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Hi guys - I've just started listening to the archive of podcasts, and so far enjoying it very much!
Is there any plan or possibility of producting transcripts? At the very least you have the makings of a book or two in there, which could contain some rather interesting takes on the world of sci-fi webcomics!
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Ben Paddon
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Joined: 07 May 2008
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Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Not something I think any of us have thought about, really! I can see the benefits, of course...
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Axonite
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Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Episode 1, part 1, transcription of first few minutes wrote: |
(Intro music)
BEN: Hello! I'm Ben Paddon, and about two weeks ago, Tauhid Bondia, Jim Francis, Mark Mekkes, and Tom Truszkowski and I all decided that we'd get together and have a chat about... stuff... and put it up on the internet as a podcast. There's a bit of a problem, though, we talked for an hour and a half, which is a bit long for a podcast, so what we've decided to do is split it up into two halves. This is the first half, and I have to apologize, because the introduction - not this introduction, the introduction I recorded at the time - it is dire. I apologize for that... Um... Just grin and bear it, the introduction's only a minute, and then it gets good, I promise. So here we go... Enjoy!
(sound effect)
BEN: Hello, people who are listening to this! This is the worst introduction ever. Um... It's incredibly instructured, but we... Let's do it anyway, okay... We're going to be discussing sci-fi webcomicry, sci-fi writing, sci-fi stuff, why the hell, what, uh, blah. Hey! I really need to learn English. I'm Ben Paddon, I'm the creator and defacto head writer of Jump Leads, and if anyone else wants to go ahead and introduce themselves, then go ahead.
TAUHID: Yeah, I'll go ahead. This is Tauhid Bondia, I'm the creator, writer, artist and all that for Good Ship Chronicles.
MARK: I'm Mark Mekkes, I do the comic Zortic.
JIM: I'm Jim Francis, I do the comic Outsider.
TOM: I'm Tom Truszkowski, I do the comic Station V3 and its assorted spinoffs.
BEN: Fantastic, welcome to Jeopardy. |
I can see the benefits (though maybe not quite yet!) - and I can also see it'd take a while to transcribe, and involves hitting the "pause" button a lot! 
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Ben Paddon
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Afetr seeing how crap I talk transcribed in this manner, I'm now very much against transcribing the podcast.
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Kyle Voltti
Egg
Joined: 12 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| Axonite wrote: |
I can see the benefits (though maybe not quite yet!) - and I can also see it'd take a while to transcribe, and involves hitting the "pause" button a lot! |
you could always use a program to transcribe the audio file
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/
then it's just a matter of going through and editing and formating it. |
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Entity325
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Joined: 07 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Voice to text programs can be picky and occasionally more trouble than they're worth. I had a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking which, admittedly a decade old now, required an hour or two of my voice to properly calibrate, and in the end, was still less than 1/3 the speed and accuracy of typing.
To make things worse, an Irish friend of mine at the time said it couldn't get past her accent(which I never got to hear), so whoever does edits would still have to go in and type most of what Ben says by hand. Also, Tom's voice is fairly garbled, so I doubt a voice recognition program would be able to make heads or tails out of anything he said.(My microphone was reasonably clear when I was playing with Dragon, and it still had an abnormally hard time with me)
so fully 1/2 of the cast won't get read properly. You'll end up going in and manually typing most of it, anyway. |
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