{"id":63,"date":"2005-02-27T04:39:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/02\/27\/scriptural-excitement\/"},"modified":"2005-02-27T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T08:39:22","slug":"scriptural-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/02\/27\/scriptural-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Scriptural excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Professional webcred transcripts<\/a> have come back<\/a>
\nfrom distant lands.  I am awfully excited about this —
\nunreasonably excited, even.  I have a particular primal <\/span>affinity
\nfor clean, freshly-minted<\/span> transcripts; particularly modern ones in all their searchable glory.  <\/p>\n

I’ll spare most of you my full review<\/a> of the transcripts, but here is a quick overview:<\/p>\n

The good<\/span>: \n<\/div>\n
    \n
  1. The transcripts are beautiful<\/span>.\n<\/li>\n
  2. The English is clean<\/span>. <\/li>\n
  3. They get most names, proper nouns, organizations, and technology
    \nreferences right. \n<\/li>\n
  4. Their attention to small connecting words and comments
    \nunder-the-breath is excellent, some 99.5% capture.\n<\/li>\n
  5. They were fast <\/span>: 1 week turnaround for 15 hours of dense audio.\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    The bad<\/span>:\n<\/div>\n
      \n
    1. They are inconsistent :
      \n[inaudible] usage, accuracy of names — full names in some places, and
      \nnot in others — session formatting,
      \nparagraph breaks.  The transcription of podcasting audio clips was
      \nsuper-shaky.\n <\/li>\n
    2. They get names, proper nouns, organizations, and technology
      \nreferences wrong.  They should have lists of these terms to avoid that…  <\/li>\n
    3.  The transcript is wrong or confused in rare <\/span>places.  \n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      The ugly<\/span>:\n<\/div>\n
        \n
          \n
        1. Many passages were misattributed.  \n <\/li>\n
        2. They
          \nget key names wrong; not just one or two.  They inconsistently
          \nattribute the same speaker’s voice to more than one name.  They
          \nget a
          \nname right on one line, only to misspell it (apparently using
          \naudio-to-text software – “I am Hussain Direction”) on another.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          <\/ol>\n

          I imagine the first two ugly problems are in part
          \nbecause many different people
          \ntranscribe any given session… but names are important enough to
          \nmerit separate passes just to get them right.<\/p>\n

          People always tell me I’m too critical ^_^.  Don’t get me
          \nwrong; I’m immensely grateful that such services exist, glad this was
          \ndone for webcred, and hope we will do the same for Wikimania<\/a>.  Rest assured that this criticism is presented with love and a sense of kinship.  I also enjoyed
          \nworking up verbatim transcripts of two of the sessions.  For comparison, here
          \nare           my transcript<\/a> of friday morning and the professional version<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

          Scriptural excitement …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Professional webcred transcripts have come back from distant lands.  I am awfully excited about this — unreasonably excited, even.  I have a particular primal affinity for clean, freshly-minted transcripts; particularly modern ones in all their searchable glory.  I’ll spare most of you my full review of the transcripts, but here is a quick overview: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-11","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}