[mythtv-users] Interview with Silicon Dust founder & CTO Nick Kelsey

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 21:50:06 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:49 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org>
> >> If you have an mp3 or wav file, the Dragon Dictation app for iphones
> >> actually does a reasonable job at transcribing.
>
> The interview isn't exactly Dolby quality.  When I listened to it, I
> had enough trouble understanding Nick myself at some points due to
> what sounded like highly compressed audio coupled with background
> noise.  I'd imagine your app might not do too well.
>
> > How long is the interview?  I could potentially find some time to
> transcribe
> > it if there's enough desire for it.
>
> About half an hour if I recall correctly, but you could certainly cut
> it down to a much shorter executive summary rather than attempting a
> word for word transcription.


I'll take a listen, and maybe consider doing a transcription.  I've done
them before on extremely bad recordings.  It's time consuming, but if it's
worth the trouble...
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