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AI-generated transcript of Jenna's ig stories about her daughter's new nickname for pookie, 1/31:
This is the moment that needs to be documented. My, my daughter asslicker. Oh, yeah, this is the moment that needs to be documented. My, my daughter just came in, and I said, I need to do my meditation because I'm feeling anxious and then I can come out and enter the realm with you guys.
And she turns to her dog and she goes, come on, ass-licker. Let's go outside.
We, we don't like, like, we taught our kids all the swear words, and we talked to them about the ones that we think they shouldn't use. And then we talked to them about context. And then otherwise, it's kind of just open for them to use language as they see fit. And they, they actually don't use swear words write often they're kind of cautious about it, they're testing it out. They know that the rule is that we don't use swear words to insult or be unkind. We use swear words to express ourselves or maybe in this instance, to be funny.
She is a funny one.
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AI-generated transcript of Jenna's IG Stories, 1/12 (part 2):
I finally got my Lexapro refill. Normally, I take those pills, about an hour before bed, today, I took that ish the moment I had it in my hands. I need that in my system. Get. In. There.
I feel this need to scream at everybody in ma family. Not really for anything they're doing. I just want to scream at people.
Really looking forward to feeling back to myself, to my new version, of myself. That reminds me, of an old version of myself, that I forgot about. I'm really looking forward to that version of Jenna again.
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Transcript of Cassie Laundrie interview from in front of her house (full 18 minute clip from earlier stickied post).
I've matched the first 2+ minutes with speakers. It's really tedious because these people keep cutting in and interrupting Cassie. If you really feel like you need to rest of it matched I'll do it, but otherwise you should be able to get the gist of it. I've highlighted key parts.
AI-generated transcript of Jenna's ig stories about no recipes for shakshuka on the in-Ter-neT, 1/30:
There's this place in Ballard, which is just north of Seattle, called the fat hen. And it has a dish based on shakshuka. But! They use a cast iron pan, and, they coat the bottom of the pan with mozzarella. And then when you're eating your shakshuka, you get all of these caramelized, crispy bits of mozzarella, which oh, with each bite, I'm going to attempt to recreate this concept.
I looked on the internet to see if anyone else had already told me how to do something similar and I can't find it, so I just got to make it up. But I am determined to try, because I really am really missing the fat hen right now.
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If I'm doing something like Jobs-to-be-done or Mental Models in house, I'll have budget to pay for transcription and I do want every word coded because of how critical the work is. I try to spend very little of my time personally on transcription - there are tools and companies that specialize in this.
If I'm doing a quick iterative usability test or just asking about a few focused problems, I may skip the full transcription.
Of time spent in qualitative research, analysis takes up probably the most time, followed by reporting, then planning, and then the actual interviews/data collection.
If your budget is small, otter.ai is free for transcribing and you can code with google sheets for free as well.
You can find the transcript here.
Also here's a google doc of the transcript
If you are in the US and your wife is working with the disability services office faculty will only know what accommodations she qualifies for and not the actual diagnosis. Finding peer notetakers can be VERY challenging - especially if it is done on a volunteer basis and they are not paid (a very common situation). Students receiving notetaking as an accommodation can often talk with their faculty to obtain supports such as T.A. notes or power point slides ahead of class. Other alternatives include a program such as Glean, OneNote, or Otter.ai (as someone else mentioned) - or other apps/programs that will help with recording or transcription.
Many students (not just those that receive accommodations) struggle with notetaking and it can be helpful (especially if your wife is unable to connect with a class notetaker) to learn some strategies about how to take effective notes. There are many, many resources online and her school might have an advising center or other support center that can help with those skills.
AI-generated transcript of Jenna's ig stories 2/12: in which jenna shows her kids how to crowdsource on the in-ter-netttt.
Hey, I'm trying to teach a math lesson. And I'm teaching the kids about reducing fractions. We're doing specifically six sixteenths. So, I know how to reduce a fraction, but I'm not sure about the language. Am I teaching them? No, it matters. This is gonna make some people so mad that this is what homeschool is, about being transparent about what you don't know. And showing your kids that you can learn. No matter your age, it doesn't matter what I know, it matters that I believe I can learn and that we can learn together.
Anyway. So when I'm talking about reducing down 6-16 are we looking for the smallest common denominator, the lowest common denominator? What's the language around teaching them? You know, this right here, how we take 616? It would only-- and we're trying to identify that, that number. If, if, it's the lowest one, then it would always just be one.
And this is also why I'm very fortunate to not homeschool entirely alone. This is not about me being their only source of information. This is about assembling, you know, a variety of resources to meet their needs, because they have math instruction through mathnasium and some classes that they go through, and in homeschool, and they have a father who is brilliant at math which is very helpful.
And so anyway, so I use some help. But also if you've been wondering, like, What does homeschool look like? Here's a really good description. today we we are working on doing measurements and fractions. My lens is dirty. so that we can organize this space. And instead of me doing all that work while they do other things, homeschool means we do it together.
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I've used a handful. They're all about the same. As of late, I've used otter.ai. Pretty much no matter what you use, expect to go back through and clean everything up. Especially if the audio isn't stellar.
Alright. Here's the audio file converted to a text file. It's gonna need some love here, it might be worse trying to get through it this way instead of putting in some earbuds and multitasking.
I'm going to take a swing at going through it and pulling out some nuggets but I'm gonna be real, there is a lot here.
https://otter.ai/u/H3rpBkpb5nEZlEcMpvrjgkj9Eu0
Otter is pretty cool, you can listen to the audio as well.
There’s software for this. Otter.ai is the website. If you are still able to use a computer with accessibility options, you should be able to make use of this for now. You record sound files, upload them, and it will spit out a transcription. It may need some proofreading but it works remarkably well. I believe you get a certain number of hours worth of transcription free before you need to pay.
Welcome to journalism in the 21st century. Your publication is clearly short-staffed--like everyone else. It's time to talk to your editor and decide how to manage your workload. At this rate, you'll burn out quickly and there won't be any coverage. On a purely practical level, whenever possible "attend" meetings remotely and use tools like Otter.ai to transcribe them. Good luck.
1. Radar operator, Kevin Day has said “Our ballistic missile defence guys were tracking these things coming down from outer space, I found out later”.
I wasn't aware of this.
Actual quote from Mick West Interview:
"That's what he said, well, because we had our Ballistic Missile Defense space tracking these thing, coming from space."
Full transcript: https://otter.ai/u/0OtR6GhjauIHKJIcAZbs5Qri1vc
Sorry I was unaware of this fact and felt the need to share the source for others. Cheers
Maybe not the 50 words part, but if you record them and run them through some transcription software you won't be far off. I use one for meetings/lectures/interviews and if the audio is clear enough it's usually pretty accurate and will detect different speakers etc.
I use Otter because my workplace does, but I've no idea how it compares to other software, there may be even better ones out there.
It's a real game changer for me as I just cannot listen and take notes properly at the same time and would just end up with the worst of both worlds. Now I can just set it recording and actually engage, which not only improves recall, but actually increases the value of whatever discussion itself if I'm able to raise questions and give input.
Got a raw transcript of it. Dropped the audio into my otter.ai account (great cheap little transcription service btw. Not the most accurate but good enough).
You can read it with the audio here.
Or read this copy, which I made with Descript.
I think the easiest way to do it would be to set up an Otter.AI account (it's a transcription software). You get 600 minutes free each month, so having 2 accounts should cover your 12-16 hours each month, or split the cost for a monthly premium account. It'll break up the audio by speaker and you can add words to your dictionary so it'll pick up names and locations and other d&d content. Searching through text feels easy, and if your ultimate goal is a best hits adventure book, that maybe makes the most sense.
Having raw audio feels like a chore, so I'd avoid just hitting the record button on an audio notes app.
A nice middle ground would be to use something like Glean. It'll allow you to capture notes with the audio, making review and organization a bit simpler.
> examining the cgi mouse so thoroughly felt out of place (and i know the significance, it just stuck out like a sore thumb)
Interview with Mark Mangini, the sound designer, on the story behind the sound of the mouse:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfzjehDg74
- Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/PA9dbWFA7BgPgLZN9CSo1WFAjXk
- /r/movies/comments/qec8w7/my_squirrel_recording_is_in_a_movie_dune/
otter.ai does a great job - it's about 98% accurate if you have good voice separation. It's a lot better than descript, and it's pretty cheap. I listen through my podcasts at 1.5x speed on Otter to fix the things it misunderstands. That takes about an hour per hour of recording. However, be warned. An accurately transcribed conversation is practically unreadable. There is a lot of redundancy in speech - repeated words, repeated thoughts and digressions that cause a lot of confusion in written text. It takes a lot of time to turn your transcript into an acceptable written dialogue. I find it takes me 8 hours to turn a 1-hour transcript into something coherent and readable. I use Grammarly for this.
This! I write for work (content marketing for a SaaS fintech company), I am v good at what I do but I struggle so hard because of my ADHD.
I use a service called Otter.ai, I pay $12.99 a month (that’s the business plan, I think they have a freemium version), I can record myself talking and it does a live transcription that I can export as a text file and edit. I also use it for meetings when I can’t pay attention. Can’t recommend highly enough.
AI-generated transcript of Jenna's (single) IG Story, 1/20:
Are you watching the evening events? I confess, I'm reeeeally sad about how they're not wearing any fancy outfits. I was reeeeeally looking forward to seeing fancy outfits tonight!
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AI-generated transcript of Jenna's jennacolephoto ig stories 3/9: in which jenna takes another step towards becoming Dorian Gray.
Today, I picked up something that I'm really excited about. On Monday morning, I woke up, and I look this mirror across from my bed, and -- it's very small for you. But in my eyes, I can see my self about this well! And I looked over, I was naked, and I looked over, and I saw the light on my back and I thought, this space with that window right above the bed and the window off to the side would be amazing for self portraits. But I can't see myself that well. For that kind of portrait. I really need to be able to see what I look like as I'm posing. So I decided to just check in at the local thrift store to see if they had anything for me. And I remember thinking, you know, the best would be a mirror with a stand. Look at that. A mirror with a stand exactly what I was wishing for!
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We use Otter.ai which is pretty cool. It gets more accurate the more transcripts you upload and correct since it'll start learning your vocab.
As for whether you need transcripts or not...no? But it does open you up to an audience that needs/appreciates them, and like you said, the SEO benefit never hurts.
ADHD boss here, what we did is make sure we do a few things.
1) All zoom meetings are recorded with Otter.ai with voice transcription.
2) Ad-hoc zoom meetings are initiated in Slack, and if a video recording is made, it gets posted to the Slack channel that started the meeting.
3) Channel notes are made during or after the meeting for task bread-crumbing.
Both the otter.ai text notes, AND video recording stays in the slack channel for the project/topic at hand.
Its such a common thing to _talk_ about an issue right then and there, agree what needs to happen, make notes on next outcomes, schedule when the people are going to work on something, and leave it until we get to it.
Almost every week we are able to cycle through a few "exception" tasks that was not planned earlier that week so we can make progress.
We by no means perfect with meetings or organizing ourselves for tasks, but we def do not want to miss a good opportunity for clarity.
Sometimes it sucks for the company to spend upwards to $500 in attention of the team members on a 1/2 hour meeting, that only results in a $250 billable hour change to the project, but the client values it greatly. So we do it.
One question is whether you want to make soft or hard subtitles. Soft subtitles are stored separately from the video and displayed simultaneously - SRT, SUB/IDX, ASS, etc. Whereas it sounds like you are wanting the subtitles to be part of the video picture (ie hard subs).
If you really want to keep using the Vegas text tool, realise you can copy and paste clips - even generated ones. So you just create one text clip and copy and paste it a couple of hundred times. Then go and edit the text. It treats each one as a separate entity, so they can all have different text. That'll save you changing the text preset 200 times.
What other people have suggested here is tools for making soft subtitles. But you can at least use them to make the text, saving a fair bit of time. I tried otter.ai recently and was very pleasantly surprised by the accuracy of the text. Free accounts can do 6,000 minutes of transcription per month.
Record your session, use speech to text to make a transcript (conversion is not perfect but good enough) make notes from that as you can play the session at double speed and make everyone sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks
My workflow is using Zoom to record the session (generates a video and audio output), Important safety tip make sure it records to your computer not the cloud I had a session go AWOL for 2 days while it was processed by Zoom.
I use otter.ai to do the speech to text, they do a nice display syncing the speech and text you can play through, their free service is limited to 40 minute recordings (you can use something like this (not tested by me), paid level limit is 4 hours. I'm sure there is better out there. The playing interface allows you to listen at ~ 3x I find 1.75 about right.
I do a GM writeup of the session to a wiki.
I use LilySpeech for dictation, it's quite impressive for being free but you'll have to go back and edit. And can't really multitask, at least not in any way I know of.
Coolest thing I've found thus far is Otter.ai but it's only 10 hours free a month without a plan. I will say it is AMAZING, has auto capitialaztion, pause detection, paragraph detection. etc. STRONGLY recommend at least playing with it to see how far we've come.
Next thing I'm trying is an open Google doc and voice typing, Google Voice AI has always been good to me.
My buddy is.... uhh, "acquiring" Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking which has been around since the 90's and I have high hopes for that!
Best of luck, let me know what you try, I am newly invested into this subject as well.
that's lovely, I find talking to myself to be a very healthy thing to do and I certainly wish that I do it more often!
an app I came across is otter.ai, it transcribes your voice notes into text so you can search it, maybe you'd be interested in it?
I work on photos with Affinity photos. It is quite powerful and reasonably priced.
Interviewing old people: You might get better results if you send them some questions in advance so they get thinking about the topics. Include the basics: You or they should fill out a family group sheet so that you know what genealogical information you are missing, and so that you are sure you know all the family members. Ask about any old family secrets -- adoptions, unplanned pregnancies, incarcerations, etc. Ask them about specific people. They will likely have stories about their parents, aunts & uncles and grandparents.
Transcribing an audio interview into text: try otter.ai.
I've never had much luck with Dragon. I use Otter.ai and a digital recorder when I dictate. Will definitely sleep in the brace tonight and look into a tens. Right now, ice is getting me through the day...
So how the ADHD brain works is it isn't that there's an inability to pay attention- it's a limited ability to choose what you pay attention to. That's why there's such a thing as "hyperfocusing," like how if your child is drawing anime or playing minecraft he can focus for an hour or more with no problem. But it also means that when they're not interested, paying attention is sometimes going to be a real struggle.But yes, even in college, I would get up 7,000 times an hour when studying for something I wasn't excited about. That doesn't mean he shouldn't have to do his homework, it just means that it's not a choice that he's getting distracted. Is he medicated? If not, that's something to consider. Even with medication it's still hard, the medication doesn't make the ADHD go away, but it's easier to concentrate than without the meds.
Something that helps me is setting a timer: 25 minutes on, 5 minute break for bathroom, sharpening pencils, stretching, quick jog around the block, whatever. I also make lists where I break assignments down into smaller, more manageable chunks that make them seem less overwhelming.
If he has trouble with writing, I like to use Otter.ai, which is a website that transcribes what you're saying for free, so he can say what he's thinking rather than write it out. Otter is the most accurate program I've found, but there are definitely others.
I am the mom of a hearing impaired college student. Auto-generated captions are not ADA compliant - and YouTube is the worst of the worst. If there is any sort of technical language, or if the speaker has an accent, its accuracy goes way below 80%. I put auto generated captions on all my class recordings as a matter of course, for the convenience of my students, using otter.ai which is probably the most accurate one out there. But hearing impaired students need ACCURATE captioning, so live transcription services like CART are the only thing that works well. Your university should be providing the service if the student has registered with the disabilities office.
I did this for a little while when my wrist was broken. I was doing it at my desk, not in bed though. I just used my headset and it worked fine. IMO, no need to get fancy expensive microphone as long as you don't have too much other noise going on in the room.
As for software, for that short a time, I just used what was available through windows. It's not great. It takes a long ass time to get used to how you talk and there was still a lot of editing I had to do after.
Otter AI is pretty good, especially since they have a free version. Depending on how much you plan to use it, the pro version isn't too much to pay for and you get a few bucks off if you pay for the full year instead of just monthly.
If you are just rolling in money, Dragon by Nuance is the best. Its a one-time whopping $500. It was developed for medical dictation, so it's designed to learn language and accent quirks. They also have a mobile version for like $15 a month.
Yes. Worth every minute. I use Otter.ai (https://otter.ai) to do my interview episodes. It’s about 90-95% there, I then just listen to it once cleaning it up and post it. Takes maybe 20% longer than the episode listen to do it. Worth it.
I get people who tell me they listen sometimes and read it some times. Who read it while listening. And my mom is mostly deaf and she reads them. And I know of at least one person who found the pod by a Google search that found my transcript.
Send an email to teacher explaining the situation
Try with any real-time voice changing app as even if you have alien sound it may be enough for brain not to register it as trigger
If transcribing is an option, then otter.ai is the best for even the foreign accents.
Good luck and keep us posted if you find a good solution
Actually if you want something that transcribes any audio samples for you go to https://otter.ai/ and it has an app for both Android and iPhone. I use ACR to record calls and then use the Otter extension on it to transcribe things.
It seriously makes things like business meetings a breeze to transcribe. My PA thought I was a wizard with how fast I was getting them to her (she did them previously) until I sent her this.
It's great for recording things like horrible parents or in-laws, but also for many other things.
The only way I know to do this is running my otter.ai with the video playing, so this is my referral link for it, it gives you a free month of the pro (and gives me a free month too) https://otter.ai/referrals/L5K64Z03 but you can also just get a free account and download it for iphone/android or use it on a computer if you don’t want to use the link. I use it for everything personally
For Zoom, "Live Transcription" = "closed captioning". The only way to get live transcription in Zoom is to have the host turn it on but that has to be part of the contract with Zoom (as far as I know it is not free for everyone). A third party captionist can provide captions (e.g., CART or meaning-for-meaning captioning) but they need to have a specific link to access the meeting (the API token) or be part of the meeting and provide captions through a second application (so you would participate in Zoom in the Zoom application and then watch/read captions in a second window/application). BUT - if you have Microsoft Word 365 or Otter.ai or LiveTranscribe (Android) you can have your phone close to the computer while on Zoom and get a live transcript of what is being said. It is automated captioning so it will not be perfect but you don't need anyone else to turn it on for you. Side note: if you are in the US and looking for captioning as an accommodation, auto-captions are generally not considered to be accurate enough to provide equal access.
I actually do closed captions professionally so use voice to text software a lot. I'll just second the recommendations for Dragon, although not if you're using a Mac. The Mac version of Dragon is terrible and completely non-user-friendly. The Windows version, I'd actually go for one of the earlier builds like 13 or 14 as they're A, cheaper and B, tend to be a bit more stable than the newer ones in my experience. It's probably the best commercial software solution out there though for speech to text and generally it's the industry standard for us. It's really easy to add vocabulary and train it for unusual works (like the names of characters etc) and to correct as you go along too, as a lot of it works off keyboard shortcuts. So you can actually correct text without really interrupting the flow of your dictation once you get good enough with the software.
Otter.ai is also good, and we've used it at the university I work for for students who need adjustments and note taking during lectures, although I've found it personally to be a little less accurate when dealing with non-standard accents. As we're based in Scotland, that proved to be a big problem for us so we're now trying not to use it if we can. If you're American though, it should be fine. It copes pretty well with most US accents, we've found.
The in-built voice to text option on Mac is actually not that bad either although it's a PITA to use because you can only dictate so much then you have to switch the mic back on all the time, which gets irritating, but again I've used it now and then when I couldn't get my Windows laptop with Dragon working to access things, such as Zoom meetings, where I've had to do live captions and it's actually been pretty accurate, as well as the fact it comes in-built with the Mac OS so you don't have to pay for anything extra. I've heard the Windows one is useable, but I have no direct experience of it myself.
Have you tried Otter.ai? It's the one I use when I'm too tired to type or don't have my hands free.
I tried a lot of different speech to text tools this year, and Otter was the best so far. I trust it enough to skip proofreading after dictating. (No, I won't publish it without proofreading first, of course, but some of these tools were so bad that I couldn't tell what I said from what was written down)
Try a speech to text app. AVA.me and otter.ai are the top ones for those of us with hearing loss. I bet it could work for you too. Seeing words makes it easier. Noisy environments can be tough though. I find a lot of people are willing to pull down their mask to accommodate lipreading. I tell them I use lipreading with my communication which people understand - they need to face me and I need to see their lips. I'm not a total lipreader but I get about 30% which adds to what I can hear making a big difference. That's why I tell people I 'use' lipreading.
Lowering masks is kind of scary. I don't ask people to do it. If they are willing, they ask me if it's okay and I say yes. I need that extra little bit for better communication.
Also, did you get a speech in noise test while at the audiologist. Sometimes that points to 'hidden hearing loss' too.
I feel sad as I write this, we have Otter.ai that does the job for us, but we also have an analyst keeping a track of decisions, and action items and maintaining them on confluence, so there is one working copy. Emails tend to pile up, and are difficult to structure in unanimity.
Otter.ai. I've used it for making subtitles and the only thing you have to worry about that one is obviously, check for spelling and grammar cause sometimes(like all speech to text generations) the words don't come out right.
I do a triple threat combo on account of my adult ADHD:
- Otto: https://otter.ai/login (takes live transcribed notes)
- Evernote: For slides, printed lecture notes and handwritten notes.
- Tablet with Smart Pencil: I use these for note taking during class, then I upload to Evernote to make them searchable.
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With this combo I've been pretty successful.
I use otter.ai to transcribe speech to text, but there are many other products available that do the same thing. I believe Otter is free for up to 600 minutes a month. There are a great many services that provide semantic, sentiment, contextual and keyword analysis. Dandelion is one such (I have no affiliation to either Otter or Dandelion, I just happen to be looking into the same sorts of technology for a client at the moment).
Be aware, however, that although these services may seem like a silver bullet they are not without their own difficulties. As good as otter is, it is not 100% accurate (no voice transcription service is). Similarly, AI analysis of text will tend to be generic in nature. In order for it to work properly for you it will be necessary to configure or train it to look for the kinds of keywords which are relevant to you. This is not an easy task, even assuming that you know which keywords to look out for (which you probably don't, at least not well enough to be truly effective).
Automatically processing recordings is one tool you can use to help you analyse interviews, but unless you have several million recordings to accurately train AI in your specific domain don't expect too much from these services. Unfortunately there's no real substitute at your stage to getting the team together and having a discussion. There's no AI in the world that will come up with useful ideas for you based on a conversation!
Ahhh can't wait to try this! I want to transcribe my episodes and I used otter.ai for one of them, but there are limits, so I'm so glad this is free since I'm just starting out too. Thank you for doing this! You da real MVP!
A few tools I've used:
Explain Everything to make explanation videos of some concepts seen in class
Otter.ai to generate captions for my lectures. We have access to some tools but none of them managed to accommodate my accent (French) and the technical terms used in my field, and it cut down the time spent fixing the captioning from 20 minutes per lecture to a quick 3-5 minutes read.
Hey! Great post! I'm in software engineering and frequently work with data scientists. It has been incredible how the world has "adapted" to us over time. Have you tried out Otter.AI? It has been so incredibly useful for me. It can auto-tag speakers once you've identified them in prior conversations. The Future Is Now!
I use otter.ai, it's free for a certain amount of audio (6000mins a month), but I didn't need to pay for ages and it's saved me so much time. It's quite accurate, I rarely need to edit much (just to make quotes more concise for articles), and the time tags help me find the quotes I've noted. However, it's mainly business-related content, so I expect you'll need to ensure the spelling for healthcare lingo is correct.
AI-generated transcript of Jenna's ig stories 3/11, in which jenna relaxes the tiniest bit.
I just went I confess, we have relaxed, the tiniest bit. I just went and got this coffee zucchini bread. She convinced me to get a cookie that was still fresh, like warm from the oven. After going to a bakery to buy the largest croissant, doughnut and cinnamon rolls all that I've seen, like, each of them, the largest I've ever been for my family because we just got a hankering and we needed something, you know, some injection of something. It's a one year anniversary today, isn't it? We're like very close. So maybe we're celebrating, subconsciously.
I think I'm going to make a sort of celebratory, ironically, celebratory dinner this Sunday. To celebrate one I keep saying celebrate and then as soon as I say the word and then one year I want to vomit. To mark,to note, to, to congratulate ourselves for making it a year. I love having dinner around a theme you know I love using a theme. Maybe I could do like aged, one year aged and then jump off from there. Thinking of cheese Of course. Just when am I not thinking of cheese? Cheese, Yeah.
This transcript was generated by https://otter.ai
The colour can't be changed from what I know of. There is this, but it's not very related to what you're saying https://otter.ai/starter-guide?article=tagSpeakers
Once upon a time I used a service called Otter.ai for live closed captioning. The great part about their service was they used AI to have context-aware closed captioning (for instance we were producing a bio-tech conference, and it was able to correctly pick up some of the scientific jargon).
We sent them a stream, and we got a closed caption feed back. Their service worked great.
Otter is meant for transcribing business meetings but I find it works well for this purpose too. What's nice is that you can rotate the phone screen and the text is larger. It saves a transcript which might be useful later for your patient (I know I definitely don't remember everything a medical professional says).
None of the above, but a really good piece of software I use is Otter.ai. It's an AI-driven transcription program that you can record live into or upload software to. It's not perfect and I recommend making sure everything's accurate before you use any of it for quotes, but it really streamlines everything.
As for news searching, I generally just have a bunch of different bookmarked websites that I sweep through every so often, or get in contact with people, or whatever.
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i've been struggling to implement CC in my Zoom lessons-- mostly because we don't have "admin privileges" on our Zoom accounts, so we have to go through a bunch of administrative garbage & file tickets with like 3 different office to be able to use services like otter.ai. it's ridiculous that these aren't automatically enabled.
one "stopgap" measure i've taken is uploading recordings of my lessons as unlisted videos on Youtube and then using their auto-captions. It captions everything pretty much flawlessly for me (except for "gauchospace," lol).
There's a lot of good open-source subtitle software out there, and then you can just upload the SRT files to your youtube video.
Alternatively, something like Otter.ai can also generate the SRT files and then you can have them translated with the timecoding already done for you (though it may require some finetuning)
I don't work on Rev but I have a friend who figured out how to make the most of it (about $200 a week). Picks out some good quality videos and uses https://otter.ai/ to transcribe them then edits them to Rev's standards. Works well for her. But it's a sucky platform and she eventually got invited to work on simplrflex.com/ and is now making close to double just from Simplrflex (and without all the arm cramps).
Sometimes, it may be hard to write down what you're feeling. You can start with baby steps first. It's easier to say it out loud instead. You can use a voice-to-text transcription app like Otter to record yourself and allow the app to transcribe for you.
Otter.ai is your best bet. I've tried a lot of automatic transcription sites and even fiddled with the Google API for a long time, but this is the cheapest one (with a discount if you use a university email) and does the job well. Keep in mind, you'll still spend some time editing the transcript, but nowhere near as long as doing it from scratch.
Hm, I have not found a way to choose the audio source in OneNote, it seems to just default to the computer/laptop mic, even when I take a skype call through a headset. As a result, I go to a room so I can play the audio through the laptop speakers and record through the laptop mic. I have not spent time researching a solution though.
As a result of this post, I'm now exploring Otter.AI.
I use otter.ai and this is what it says on its website:
Is my data safe?
Yes, we are committed to keeping your data private and secure. We don’t share your conversations with anybody. We may select segments of raw or partially processed audio and associated transcribed text from multiple recorded conversations from different users to be used as training data to automatically train our proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Only after receiving explicit permission from our users we may manually transcribe certain recorded conversations to further enrich our training data. We sync your data over an encrypted connection, and store it in our secure data center that has both physical and electronic security.
Otter.ai! I have always been wary of any auto-transcription service, but damn they actually work. 600 minutes free each month, or you can pay to get I think 6,000/month. You either record as you go and it automatically transcribes, or you can upload a recording. It's not always 100%, but the beauty I find is that it does it well enough for me to figure out what spot I'm in and then go and edit to what it actually says (you can edit on the page and it'll change it to that). Makes finding good quotes a lot easier.
It takes practice, but train yourself to pick out quotes as the person is talking. You don't have to write everything the person says, just the stuff that will make good quotes.
I typically only record if it's a touchy subject, the source has a reputation of disputing quotes or it's a long feature and I want to really engage with the source. I also often record speakers at events because I'm usually taking photos at the same time they're talking.
For run-of-the-mill stories, though, I've tried to wean myself off recording because of how much time it adds. As long as you get bullet points of what the person is saying plus a couple good quotes, you're usually fine.
I also highly recommend otter.ai for transcribing audio. It's not perfect, but with good quality audio, it's accurate enough to allow you to find the quotes you're looking for and listen to get it exact.
If there’s a podcast you want to read but there isn’t a transcript, you could upload the mp3 to a site like Otter that does a decent job of transcribing the episode automatically.
Yes. And let's use otter.ai. It provides great transcription (free up to 600 minutes) and searchable / linked text.
I've created a group for IDW if anyone wants to PM me an email, I'll add you.
Here's something that might be of interest to people who want to get into this kind of conversation: https://otter.ai/s/bdfc60e0baed4a3eab238072b3203a9c
I just tried Otter For dictating a first draft of a blog post and it is fantastic. I've had writing anxiety for a long time, so now I want to tell more people who also have writing anxiety. Would it be against the rules of this sub to post about this app and my process?
That’s a really cool thing to read as I just finished contemplating some of the immense problems the Internet has brought as and how to resolve them.
My main complaint is that there is too much noise without strong enough signals at times. That leads to manipulative tendencies which are self evidently not good.
I’d love if you could offer some of your perspective on my thoughts here: https://otter.ai/shared/conversation/3a3a04dcfd3a475db2568b5d5f1ccbe7
I’m also intensely passionate about creating better learning systems online and was lucky enough to get experience working at Google on solving that very problem, though not anywhere near to the degree that I wished or thought possible.
Here’s the list of keywords from my recording if you’re interested. Would love to have a conversation with you about how you were able to navigate the noisy environment of the internet to learn awesome skills! As a developer myself, I would also love to work on any kind of software projects you might want to do for fun so we could learn more together.
I used to too.
But I think this is a problem. Everyone considers sick thoughts. But we must be able to classify these sick thought as such, so we mist discuss them and signal agreement.
For example, if Bob were to disagree with me that pedophelia may only be exhibited by an individual who is at the very least mentally deranged, then that is a problem. I don’t think any reasonable acting member of the human race could defend Bob.
However, when it becomes taboo to talk about what we’re thinking or even worse-the COMEDIANS of our cultures, we don’t have a simple litmus test for detecting norms and sending each other compressed messages that say something along the lines of “this is the order in which I think things are fucked up”
Here’s a recording I made where I talk about laughter as an indicator. Would love to hear your thoughts: https://otter.ai/shared/conversation/4670fb7931164f9dbe5bfd11f1464124
And another: st Made a New YouTube Series” with you: https://otter.ai/shared/conversation/99308997a1b54ba695e1520c30b51c2e
It may not be any better than your own interpretation but you could try something like Otter.ai that transcribes audio. It's the same software that Zoom uses for transcription.
Then you could use something like Natural Reader to read the transcription back to you.
https://otter.ai/ converts speech to text as you speak and records your voice at the same time. You can click a word to hear what you said. They give you 600 free minutes per month and they say it works on an iPhone.
If you run Windows on a PC, you can press Windows+H to speak text into most applications. I don't know about Reddit chat.
https://otter.ai/ is really good. It gets you about 80% of the way there which can be good enough depending on your needs. I have a referral that gives us both a bunch of extra free hours if you don't mind DMing me for it ;:)
I like the Otter app, it eavesdrops for me on other conversations. I have a subscription. I use it on my phone and on the computer for certain online meetings. I like it because it hears everything on my computer and not just what's on Chrome. Chrome accessibility doesn't work for Zoom meetings.
What video conferencing service do you use? There are automatic transcription services you can setup that send detailed notes immediately after the meeting. Otter.AI is one that comes to mind but there are several. This could save you time and allow you to focus on onboarding or other tasks.
If you have Office 365, it can transcribe audio files and speech as you speak it but that's in the cloud.. I have Dragon Home so it doesn't transcribe audio but it converts spoken speech to text very well. Nuance has a sell going on. Microsoft bought the company.
https://otter.ai transcribes spoken audio very well but it's in the cloud even though we can install its mobile app. I sometimes use the free Otter version that gives you 600 free minutes.
They say the paid version does the same thing with uploaded audio files. Otter also synchronizes your spoken words you hear with words you see in the live transcript the way Dragon desktop does.
So Dragon's the only desktop app that I know of which converts an audio file into a transcript. Almost all my transcriptions come from live speech.
Damn right, you go take care of business Papa Bear!
Here are a few things that really helped me document everything:
1) Buy an audio recorder (about $40) separate from your phone, so you can use it to record phone calls with your STBXW. She seems like the kind of person that doesn't watch what she says well.
2) Depending on the phone you have, there are programs you can use to export all your text messages to an Excel spreadsheet. For iPhones there is a program that cost me only $5, just google for it. I was able to use my spreadsheet to find hundreds of instances where my STBXW made some fucked up threats to me.
3) Otter.ai is a website where you can upload audio recordings from your phone or other audio recorded, and it will transcribe the audio and turn it into text PDF files that you can word search with. There are other websites like this if you want to shop around, but this one works well for about $13/month subscription.
While not selfhosted, otter.ai's accuracy is unparalleled in the transcription services I've tried. The interface for working with the transcripts, while cool, can be a bit tedious to use.
Esiste un programma tipo otter.ai per l'italia? Quindi un programma che permette di registrare e trascrivere in tempo reale quello che viene detto e che lo fa in modo più che decente? Otter sarebbe stra comodo perché offre anche un'estensione che si integra con Google meet peccato che supporta solo lingua inglese
You can't append, but Otter transcribes what you say and records your voice. It also identifies keywords in what you say. You can add comments to what you say. Timestamps exist. Share it as needed. One touch on mobile or PC starts a recording which you can pause as needed. As you record, you can also scroll up and down the real-time transcript without stopping the recording.
Things missing are "append" ability.
A critical feature for me is the ability to hear what I said in case the transcription is incorrect. In an Otter document, you can click anywhere in the transcription and hear what you actually said. That's also an important feature in Dragon NaturallySpeaking. That is my main recording program on the PC. Otter comes in handy on PC and Mobile.
For free, you get 600 free minutes of Otter recording and transcription. But you also wind up with lots of files. One option might be to keep one recording paused and later as needed "un-pause" it to speak more thoughts.
Dragon is still the best option because everything can go to one file if you like and the mic is always ready to accept input. But Dragon is not cheap. There's a mobile version but that's not free. Doctors and lawyers may use apps like Dragon.
Another option would be to leave Google Transcribe running on your mobile device. It's always listening just like Alexa. If you say something, the app will transcribe it. That means it could act like a personal assistant where all you do is speak while you're doing something else and the app transcribes it.
The problem there is there is no backup recording of your voice. If mistakes exist in the transcription, you may not be able to figure them out. That's not a problem with Otter or Dragon because you can click words to hear what you actually said.
I''ve got a handheld recorder that I can plug into my laptop and export the recording into otter.ai. The transcription is about 90% accurate with US accents and with other accents is improving all the time.
I personally use Otter (https://otter.ai), it can identify multiple speakers (seems to have issues with harsher accents tho, but I haven't used it that recently) and saves the meeting for later too. Not much more to ask of it.
They should have a free offering (last I checked they did).
With android you should be able to use Otter.ai, while on a phone call. It can record as long as you put speaker phone on. Their website says it works..
I usually just put speaker phone on and record the convo with the otter app on my Macbook, but I've never tried the speaker phone/android app at the same time. Its totally worth a download regardless, Otter is awesome. I'm in a region where people have real thick Caribbean accents and it still records, and transcribes interviews well enough to where I can easily search for certain sections I find useful.
I'm trying a new system that only requires digital sticky notes and google calendar :)
3x3 method (I learned it from the guy who invented Skillshare)
Pick three outcomes you want to achieve by the end of the week and only 3 main tasks per day. So, three "rocks" per week and maybe a mix of a rock and 2 pebbles (smaller tasks that help to get a rock done or tasks that are still important but are not related to rocks) per day (here is what I mean by rocks and pebbles).
In my calendar, I block time for all the three rocks, starting with the most important one first. So, on Monday, I'll add a time block for however long I think rock #1 will take, maybe 3 hour chunk for that or maybe a couple of blocks spread out. Then the same thing goes for Tuesday for rock 2, and Wednesday for rock 3. By mid-week, if I managed to make progress on those rocks, I'm feelin' good! Then I can have Thursday to do other tasks (pebbles and sand) that I enjoy/ are still important.
The combination of prioritizing 3 big accomplishments for the week and 3 main to-do's per day helps you to stick to what's important!
And of course, other tools are needed too. Here are some of my faves:
- Asana for task management
- Zenpen.io for writing down random things
- Toggl - time tracking
- Otter.ai --- wooowww so nice to not have to worry about taking detailed notes
Did you know that Notability has a recording feature that syncs your audio recordings to your handwriting?
Check out Otter.ai, which you can use on top of Notability. Put Otter in your taskbar so you can drag it on top of other apps when needed.
Re from OP: I gave Otter.ai a try and ended up buying the full subscription, it was worth every cent. I had an interview that ran over an hour and it helped so much with my ability to get shit done.
The big thing for me would be the ability to somehow get the audio in a searchable form.
Even just 1 day of audio becomes overwhelming unless you can do a text search.
I know on this thread people have mentioned otter.ai, are there any other services or ideally FOSS projects that I can run at home to transcribe audio? I think if a web service was genuinely reliable enough then I would run the privacy risk and pay for it.
Clearly one that doesn't require an external service would be ideal.
If anyone can suggest a working solution I'd be really grateful. I have plenty of long family videos that would be a million times more interesting if I could pinpoint discussions.
As a recorder I would suggest the app Noted. You can write, record you voice and link them both bases on time of the recording. Much easy to find what you said them a whole voice clip.
If you want to extract all words from a recording, (i.e., take voice and have it converted into text) I would recommend otter.ai
I get audiobooks to pass the time while driving, walking, bathing or playing video games x1 works well for me.
OTOH I record my RPG sessions and prepare a writeup from that (using otter.ai to do a speech to text), the fastest I can go on that is x1.75
I use https://otter.ai for this.
It creates a transcript that’s synced to audio. You can play it on your phone while doing other work and highlight the parts you like.
Then you can go back into the editor and mark those same sections.
It has helped me process a lot of interviews and doc footage where the camera was running continuously.
Basic plan is free.
Speechnotes
Voice Notes
Voice Notebook
TranscribeMe
All can be found on Google Play.
Unfortunately, not on F droid or others I could find.
But if you trust apkpure, some of them are there.
https://apkpure.com/search?q=transcribe
It's not clear what you are trying to accomplish, so just a word of warning if you are trying to make an online meeting accessible:
You really need to consult with a qualified accessibility specialist/disability service provider. Auto-transcriptions are often not an adequate accommodation for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
Having said that, if you are instead trying to make a recording/archive accessible:
Auto transcriptions can be a useful starting point for creating captions and making recordings accessible and 508-conformant.
I second otter.ai as a first choice for this service.
Message me if you want more help...
OK I understand now. Knowing your situation, and since you provided some additional requirements absolutely changes things. I was going to suggest that most modern platforms are beginning to support automatic transcription.
Zoom has it native now, but I had previously used Otter.ai which records audio + transcribes. The nice thing about otter is it attempts to identify and separate speakers which you can go back and name later and their interface is the best I've used personally to make it easy to clean up notes and recordings in sync. I used it for a conference but remembered thinking of how nice it would be to use for business applications where rigorous notes needed to be taken.
The offline requirement is tough but the epiphan suggestion below does look good. I wonder if you could leverage otter.ai in conjunction with the epiphan to have a really nice offline but still cloud supported solution if you could coordinate upload after the fact.
Thank you. I installed virtual audio driver (blackhole) and transcribe the video with google doc on chrome. I check otter.ai and not yet understand how its works, is it paid service?
I use otter.ai anytime I have an important convo or meeting so if I lose focus or if audio processing issues come up I can read the transcription (generated live) to catch back up in real time and then I can also reference it later. Worth the $10 bucks or so a month. Not as useful for in person stuff but great for online.