I also wondered (but didn’t look around much) how to easily transcribe the interview: is there an equivalent to OpenCV for speech? I know the Mac has built-in dictation, so maybe I could wrangle that somehow.
There’s an insidious, awful, project called “pocketsphinx" that shows up everywhere you go looking for open source speech recognition.
I’ve always puzzled over why sound seems to be a less explored perceptual channel than the visual. On some level, it seems obvious why, but then I puzzle at the obviousness of it. You could say that, like all the other senses (except sight), sound is invisible, and so it is harder to deal with. I suppose lack of vision (the literal kind) is an immediate problem from the moment you get out of bed, whereas lack of hearing is largely a problem of communication in a speech-dominated world (though becoming less so with the prevalence of email, texting, video chat, etc.).
Here is a brief
list of animals who are unlikely to contribute to the pocketsphinx project. But vision seems to be compensated for more by touch and smell than hearing.
Regarding the transcription results, it seems less useful to judge them by accuracy than by how amusing the results are. Pocketsphinx isn’t even very funny. I decided to route the audio from my laptop directly into the Mac dictation (results below), which actually works. The text feels more like plausible speech, but it still isn’t great (and Edlund’s voice is quite clear, though there are a number of stutters—but that’s typical). Also, because I used continuous dictation, there is no punctuation and the sentences run on forever. The process was also slow (real time) and locked up the rest of the computer.
I also converted the text back to speech, just because. I couldn’t even get past listening to the first minute. The lack of punctuation is probably the deal breaker here.
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