Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by blantonl on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:54PM (#23397481)

This is a very accurate description of the problem space. Every municipality has their own jargon, vernacular, and ways to communicate brevity which is key in public safety communications. The communications are often digitized over vocoders that are less than optimal, and then you have the process of recovering voice from noisy communcations channels.

This is definitely a very hard problem to solve.

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by jcims on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#23397573)

Indeed. The only reason I know is that I tried a few years back and realized that I was asking the computer to do something that I couldn't even do. Anyone that doubts it, just listen to the NYPD feed and try to transcribe for just a minute or two.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890

(edit: also, thank you for keeping this service up and running for so long, have been a regular user since the early RR days. Would love to have a comment/live chat option if your backlog is getting bare :))

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by lunixbochs on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:23PM (#23397736)

Ok, here we go: https://feeds.talonvoice.com

Repo is here if you need to report (or just fix :D) bugs in the webapp: https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by jcims on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:25PM (#23397753)

Whoa this is awesome! Love the option to fix a transcription, should hopefully help with training if you get some traction.

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by lunixbochs on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:27PM (#23397762)

Thanks! I did a lot of tests and no existing ASR I found could do it to 100%, so I'm using the best ASR I could find and hoping users will help with transcriptions if they want to see it succeed and scale.

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