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Author's profile photo Bernd Dittrich

Volunteering for TM Podcast transcript, anyone?

You might be aware of the TM podcast. We think, it is already good, but it could be improved, of course. E.g. by making transcripts available, which would make the podcast of course way more accessible and inclusive.  And meanwhile the infrastructure is there. A nice example is e.g. here.

As a result we would have the text in sync with the audio. This looks something like this:

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Example of Transcript in action

Of course, this requires a good transcript. There is a well established format for this, this looks something like this (this is the raw version as returned by automated text recognition, more funny than helpful):

Basically per timestamp and speaker the text is written down.

So far we have the separated audio tracks, sometimes also the “funny” version of the webvtt file.

And now we need you: Of course creating those transcripts in good quality is quite some work, and as our main focus is delivering software this is currently not possible from our side. But maybe there is somebody in our audience willing to help us out here?

If so, just contact us and we can see how we can proceed. Looking forward to hear from you!

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      Author's profile photo Dominik Tylczynski
      Dominik Tylczynski

      Hi Bernd Dittrich

      I'm willing to help you out in my spare time. Let me know how we can proceed.

      BR, Dominik Tylczynski

      Author's profile photo Bernd Dittrich
      Bernd Dittrich
      Blog Post Author

      Wow, that was fast! I will ping you directly!

       

      Author's profile photo Bobbie Bowser
      Bobbie Bowser

      Hi Bernd - if you need additional support, I can also help.

       

      Best regards,

      Bobbie Bowser

      Author's profile photo Bernd Dittrich
      Bernd Dittrich
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks a lot, really appreciate this! We will do a first trial with Dominik and his team and learn some best practices first. Then we can surely need more help, plenty of episodes do be transcripted...

      I hope it´s ok to contact you then after we have our first learnings...

      Author's profile photo Bobbie Bowser
      Bobbie Bowser

      Absolutely Bernd - please let me know!

      Author's profile photo Parveen Kumar
      Parveen Kumar

      Dear Bernd, please let me know if I could be a help.

       

      Regards

      Praveen -

      Author's profile photo Bernd Dittrich
      Bernd Dittrich
      Blog Post Author

      Hi,

       

      we are currently prototyping with Dominik, once we have the result I will surely contact you!

       

      Bernd