diff --git a/content/posts/2022-09-16-vosk.md b/content/posts/2022-09-16-vosk.md index bb08ca0..88f90ad 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022-09-16-vosk.md +++ b/content/posts/2022-09-16-vosk.md @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ tags = ["emacs", "elfeed"] draft = false +++ -In my experience, finding something in a podcast is particularly troublesome. For example, occasionally I want to refer to some line in the podcast to make an [org-roam](https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam) node, so I want to check that I got that part right. +In my experience, finding something in a podcast is particularly troublesome. For example, occasionally I want to refer to some line in the podcast to make an [org-roam](https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam) node, e.g. I want to check that I got that part right. And I have no reasonable way to get there because audio files in themselves don't allow for [random access](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access), i.e. there are no "landmarks" that point to this or that portion of the file. At least if nothing like a transcript is available. -For obvious reasons, podcasts rarely ship with transcripts. So in this post, I'll be using a speech recognition engine to make up for that. A generated transcript is not quite as good as a manually written one, but for the purpose of finding a fragment of the known podcast, it works well enough. +For obvious reasons, podcasts rarely ship with transcripts. So in this post, I'll be using a speech recognition engine to make up for that. A generated transcript is not quite as good as a manually written one, but for the purpose of finding a fragment of a known podcast, it works well enough. {{< figure src="/images/vosk/img.png" >}} diff --git a/org/2022-09-16-vosk.org b/org/2022-09-16-vosk.org index b1f1091..847dfd3 100644 --- a/org/2022-09-16-vosk.org +++ b/org/2022-09-16-vosk.org @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ #+HUGO_TAGS: elfeed #+HUGO_DRAFT: false -In my experience, finding something in a podcast is particularly troublesome. For example, occasionally I want to refer to some line in the podcast to make an [[https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam][org-roam]] node, so I want to check that I got that part right. +In my experience, finding something in a podcast is particularly troublesome. For example, occasionally I want to refer to some line in the podcast to make an [[https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam][org-roam]] node, e.g. I want to check that I got that part right. And I have no reasonable way to get there because audio files in themselves don't allow for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access][random access]], i.e. there are no "landmarks" that point to this or that portion of the file. At least if nothing like a transcript is available. -For obvious reasons, podcasts rarely ship with transcripts. So in this post, I'll be using a speech recognition engine to make up for that. A generated transcript is not quite as good as a manually written one, but for the purpose of finding a fragment of the known podcast, it works well enough. +For obvious reasons, podcasts rarely ship with transcripts. So in this post, I'll be using a speech recognition engine to make up for that. A generated transcript is not quite as good as a manually written one, but for the purpose of finding a fragment of a known podcast, it works well enough. [[./static/images/vosk/img.png]]