I was talking with a friend and we were thinking about transcribing old Bombcasts. Has anyone tried this before? Does anyone have any of the old shows transcribed?
Thanks for the help!
I was talking with a friend and we were thinking about transcribing old Bombcasts. Has anyone tried this before? Does anyone have any of the old shows transcribed?
Thanks for the help!
As someone who's done actual transcription work in the past, I should warn you that, even with professional software and pedal controls, transcribing even one 3 hour Bombcast would take a really damn long time.
It would be great to have transcriptions. Especially as an easy way to search for specific titles to see in which episodes they're discussed. But again, it doesn't seem like it, but transcription is very, very time consuming. There's a reason that people train to do it professionally.
Instead of full transcriptions it might be a better idea to do make a wiki that gives an outline and timecodes to the discussions on that episode along with some choice quotes, it's still a lot of work but it wouldn't be as time consuming as typing out and spellchecking every single word.
Another podcast I listen to, Uhh Yeah Dude has this crazy fan called Weck who created exactly that for them, every episode page details each discussion and categorizes common themes and segments, take a look at one of the pages here to see what I mean:
http://archive.uhhyeahdu.de/episodes/episode-197
Having something like that for Giant Bomb would be dope as hell.
@viciousreiven: There was some duder who was doing just that, but my shitty memory is failing me as to the specifics. It was like a blog post breaking down what was talked about with links.
I think it may have been like 1.5 - 2 years ago? Anyone with a better brain than mine remember?
@dudeglove yeah I just took a look at my podcast app and we are looking at about 480 episodes.
@joshwent Yeah we were thinking about using a combination of Amazon Mechanical Turk, speech to text software, and myself on pedal typing. I've done professional transcriptions before and I know we would be looking at thousands of dollars of investment. Maybe we would just do a few of the newer episodes as a test.
@mb Yeah especially during the E3 shows. Those would be impossible.
@viciousreiven This is amazing. Even doing a small amount of what they are doing would be awesome.
@joshwent: I believe you're thinking of @matthew and his Bombcast Breakdown blogs. Looks like he stopped at episode 40 though.
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