[grc] Transcribing radio interviews

[Bill Simmon]

So my friend Daniell has a captioning software outfit that specializes in
working with community television centers. I pinged him on FB about this
conversation and he writes:

"There are people hacking WebCaptioner.com with a “virtual audio cable” for
windows that lets them route their audio into chrome and get free
transcription/captioning. I’ll Look in their Facebook group for examples
and try to share in case it’s helpful. Latest use case I saw was twitch
live streamers adding free real time Captioning [image: 😉] always let the
gamers find free solutions to exploit [image: 😉]"

https://webcaptioner.com

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TwFCxXMESwSjAbLqI3kFIqSXvM-lzkRobhaybbGK7Eg/mobilebasic

https://mobile.twitter.com/SasiahHochle/status/1018589285556027392

"This is about tying it into streaming but somewhat similar to radio needs"

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Bill Simmon
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On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:19 PM, rych withers via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
wrote:

> Interestingly enough I got this email the other day.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Scwartz <sharon at verbit.email>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2018 10:51 AM
> Subject: Idea For Closed Captioning
>
> Hi Rychard,
>
> I understand that you’re the CIO at Kfcf and the best person to talk to
> about an exciting idea you might be interested in.
>
> I’m referring to cutting-edge transcription technology that would help
> your production and captioning team produce faster results and decrease the
> cost and time of delivery.
>
> How? By fusing artificial and human intelligence to provide 99.9% accuracy
> at a rate 10 times faster than the industry standard.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Heather Gray via grc
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 11:11 AM
> To: Ted Coe
> Cc: GRC
> Subject: Re: [grc] Transcribing radio interviews
>
> Thanks everyone. I guess there is really not the software available but
> rather to use transcription services. I am wondering, for example, what
> Democracy Now uses to transcribe interviews or NPR - do they also use
> transcription services?
>
> Peace. Heather
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 2, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Ted Coe <advisor at kcsb.org> wrote:
>>
>> I recently used the website Temi to transcribe an old interview from 2015
>> that I did with Boots Riley.
>>
>> https://www.temi.com
>>
>> It was reasonably priced ($6 for about 47 minutes) and more accurate than
>> I anticipated... but it still took me quite a while to clean the whole
>> thing up for publication. It also has some nice features, like a word
>> highlighting function that follows along during playback. You can also edit
>> the text they provide while still logged in online. And its ability to
>> identify the names of other celebrities my guest mentioned was pretty
>> uncanny.
>>
>> I'd certainly be interested in other services out there of this type.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ted Coe
>>
>> Theodore Coe
>> Advisor
>> KCSB-FM 91.9 (www.kcsb.org)
>>
>> Associated Students
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> PO Box 13401
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93107-3401
>>
>> 805.893.3921 work
>> 805.893.7734 fax
>>
>> advisor at kcsb.org
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Russell Gragg via grc <
>>> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>>> There are companies that handle it, though they tend to pay their
>>> transcriptionists below subsistence wages. I'm thinking Rev.com and a
>>> couple of others.
>>>
>>> Alternately, there are tons of hungry radio and podcast freelancers in
>>> the
>>> NYCRadio Google group always looking to take projects on. Standard rate
>>> seems to be $1USD/minute of audio.
>>>
>>> It's something I do extensively, so if you're looking for a seasoned vet,
>>> drop me a line. I've worked with the New York Times, Gimlet Media, Vox
>>> Media, the University of Saskatchewan, Pineapple Street Media and several
>>> others.
>>>
>>>
>>> -russ
>>>
>>> *Russell W. Gragg*
>>> Media Strategist/Editor/Producer
>>> TAPES//TYPES
>>> Toronto, CANADA
>>> 902●401●3021
>>> rgragg at gmail.com
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Heather Gray via grc <
>>> grc at maillist.peak.org
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > Please share what you think is the best way to transcribe radio >
>>> interviews.
>>> > I would so appreciate ideas about this from GRC folks. I always find
>>> > transcription such a challenge.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance everyone.
>>> >
>>> > Peace, Heather Gray at WRFG-Atlanta
>>> >
>>> > Heather Gray
>>> > "Justice Initiative"
>>> > "Just Peace² WRFG-Atlanta (89.3 FM)
>>> > 404 234 4630
>>> >
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