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by notjulianjaynes 1156 days ago
This is interesting but what problem does it solve better than CTRL+F-ing a transcript? It seems like this would be a worse solution for when the precise way someone says something could be important (ex. journalists parsing an interview, students studying their recorded lectures) and that it would be most useful if you were working with a large volume of recorded audio, such as customer service calls. This makes me somewhat uncomfortable, but perhaps I am not fully understanding how it works.

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Being able to handle and ask questions of audio data is a pretty big field. https://www.assemblyai.com/, for example, is a company entirely dedicated to audio intelligence. They have some great example use cases on their page.
> This is interesting but what problem does it solve better than CTRL+F-ing a transcript?

Producing the transcript?

Being able to classify and search data seems like a pretty big deal these days too.