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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by derefr on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:14PM (#12293060)
> I don't have a great solution to this; some kind of automatic transcription maybe?

This was the original goal of YouTube, as a project: automatic video transcription to enable better accessibility and indexibility for audio/video. It's theoretically in there, but it doesn't do well at all. I'm honestly surprised it doesn't do better, given the Google Voice dataset that's likely backing it.

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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by jim-greer on Monday August 15, 2016 @09:06PM (#12294795)
Actually that was the original goal of Google Video, which never got much traction and was discontinued eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos

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