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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Feb 2, 2006 2:00PM

Kynn Bartlett wrote:

> But it does offer a tantalizing thought about podcast accessibility.
> Perhaps if there were a way that podcasts could specifically (via RSS
> and license markup?) allow for third-party transcription, this would
> be useful?

Yeah, I could see some Creative Commons flag possibly relating to this.

> Of course, machine-generated transcripts will often suck. But they
> are a start and some transcription is better than none, usually.

Definitely. Derek Featherstone and I discussed (gosh, quite a long time
ago) the possibility of speakers at events having a trained version of
Dragon NaturallySpeaking or similar on their laptops during their
presentations, to allow for an instant (rough) transcript that can then
be easily tweaked and uploaded as part of event notes.

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Patrick H. Lauke
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