Podcasting is good, but…

…it really is kind of inefficient. I wonder if there is any sort of speech-to-text web service which can turn podcasts into regular blog entries for when you just want to read.

I mean, its nice when you want to listen to something in the car or walking around, but if you’re actually at your computer, I’d rather just read. I’m pretty sure I can read much faster than I listen. Plus, it’s a lot harder to save a snippet of audio than it is to cut and paste a snippet of a blog entry.

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Brad Reynolds 9.11.05 / 11am

I don’t have a specific URL for you to look at but Jon Udell has done some experimenting with something like what you’re asking for. I remember hearing it on a gilmore gang podcast. He actually had a way to provide a URL for a specific sound clip in a podcast and I believe a speech to text generator as well. It was all experimental stuff but was very interesting.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/

Anyway there might not be anything yet but others are asking the same questions as you are and hopefully something will come of it.
Craig 9.11.05 / 6pm

A few notes:

- the other problem with podcasts is they are not indexable. If you have a great podcast about a specific topic, google will never bring it up since it would have to do ASR on the audio (see next point) to generate the text, then index the text.

- ASR (auto speech rec) in an unbounded vocab (e.g. talk radio) has a sub 50% accuracy rate (cannot remember the exact figure) so it is not viable. In a bounded vocab (e.g. automated telephone prompts) it works really well.

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My name is Luis de la Rosa and I am an iPhone Consultant helping companies make iPhone apps.

I also develop my own Mac OS X and iPhone apps via my company Happy Apps. The first of these apps is WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager for Mac OS X which lets you tag your bookmarks and synchronizes with del.icio.us.

I have been making iPhone applications for clients the past year through my company Happy Apps LLC. Through Happy Apps, I have also been developing Mac OS X apps and Ruby Rails apps for the past 3 1/2 years. For over 14 years, I’ve been developing commercial and in-house applications in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Objective-C.

I like to share what I’ve learned either from hands-on development or the latest books I’ve read. I used to do it in person when I worked in a cubicle but now I get to share it with everyone via my blog. I don’t really miss the cube. :)

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