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by cstross 918 days ago
Is there a text transcript anywhere?

(For those of us who hate video and can't absorb information that way.)

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There is not, because none of it was scripted and any semblance of narrative flow was crudely faked in editing. But it's a reasonable request. I'll try pushing the audio through Whisper and see what comes out. Google will, eventually, do it's own speech recognition but historically it hates my accent.
Adding Whisper subtitles was really easy and they're dramatically better than the automatic Google ones (I did it via https://github.com/abdeladim-s/subsai, which was trivial to use). So there is now a reasonably good transcript available in the video comments.
What Charlie said!

Here's a bit of info about the hardware:

https://www.toughdev.com/content/2016/06/brother-super-power...

And here's a little tech info about it:

https://hackaday.io/project/169958-brother-super-powernote-r...

I don't remember a good transcription tool, but if you want to play with APIs, IBM had a Watson-branded one that could do it. We used it at Workday and it worked so well we discovered (the hard way, of course) we needed to check transcripts for curse words.
Otter.ai does a remarkably good job.
Plus, otters are adorable.