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Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:57AM (#33054534)
Wish there was a service where I can plug in the URL of this podcast to get a Whisper transcript, separated into paragraphs, and with headlines for skimming. So I can decide whether or not to invest an hour of my time to actually listen to the whole thing.
Re:How to really know another person by karmakaze on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:22AM (#33055662)
There's already clues there as to what sort of angle this might be approached from. The speakers book "Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them, by Tessa West, 2022." as well as their work and other cited research is listed on the page.

I just started listening, there were segments with the first being 15m. I would say that they're a collection of anecdata stories on the subject. I napped for a segment in the middle, dreaming about visiting a treehouse office, and was awake again for the end. I didn't find any big answers but also don't mind having passed the time.

Re:How to really know another person by pvinis on Sunday October 02, 2022 @12:00PM (#33057081)
I'd rather get your takes on episodes as a paid service over the idea of the parent :p
Re:How to really know another person by hungryforcodes on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:50PM (#33058378)
I agree -- where can I sign up? :)
Re:How to really know another person by baxtr on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:47PM (#33110680)
So you'd pay someone to listen to Podcasts and send you a summary?
Re:How to really know another person by EarlKing on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:33PM (#33112145)
But what would we call it? Slashpod? Poddot? Either way, you'd be continuing the proud tradition of not reading the summary.
Re:How to really know another person by jbotz on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:07PM (#33110963)
The "meat" of the thing was right in the middle, so you may have missed it... it's simply that according to her research the best way of figuring out what someone is thinking or feeling is to ask them. Doh.
Re:How to really know another person by swader999 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:38PM (#33111358)
Thanks, this is one of those times where it would have been more useful to read the comments first.

On a positive note, the voices were both soothing enough that I did get a short refreshing nap out of it.

Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:58AM (#33123078)
I wonder how many podcasts are actually being abused as sleeping aid.
Re:How to really know another person by adinisom on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:06AM (#33063358)
Transcribed using 'base' model:

https://pastebin.com/M5276AFE

Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:54AM (#33064666)
Wow. Thank you!
Re:How to really know another person by Etheryte on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:38PM (#33110514)
I'm surprised by how good the result is, what tool did you use for this?
Re:How to really know another person by mkaic on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:37PM (#33111346)
Judging from OP's comment, they used OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text transcription model, which was recently released open-source: https://openai.com/blog/whisper/
Re:How to really know another person by Etheryte on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:19PM (#33114855)
Ah okay, thank you, I was not aware of this and so I didn't know what to search for. Thanks a lot for the help, much appreciated.
Re:How to really know another person by mkaic on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:04AM (#33130644)
No problem! It's getting harder and harder to keep up with all the stuff getting released in the AI world these days.
Re:How to really know another person by saddist0 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:43PM (#33110614)
And a stab at auto-summary using tools4noobs:

https://pastebin.com/VY6M489T

Re:How to really know another person by serpix on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:37PM (#33110497)
the answer is "You ask them". Saved you one hour.
Re:How to really know another person by cbfrench on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:57PM (#33110832)
slaps forehead

Why didn’t I think of that before?

Re:How to really know another person by badcc on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:06PM (#33110944)
Better yet.. podcast -> Whisper -> text summarization model... sounds like it'd be fun to hack together
Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:48PM (#33112337)
If you do, please post!
Re:How to really know another person by m463 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:15PM (#33114204)
whisper.sh:

    $ curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052985 | grep -A10 'tldr' 

    jderick 4 hours ago | prev | next [–]

    tldr:

    "So you're saying the best way of figuring out what's inside someone else's mind is to ask them?"

    "That's right."
Re:How to really know another person by jjtheblunt on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:46PM (#33112307)
what's a Whisper transcript? (looking, enticed)
Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:48PM (#33112331)
Transcript created by OpenAI's new "Whisper" language model.
Re:How to really know another person by jjtheblunt on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:47PM (#33114518)
thanks
Re:How to really know another person by sthatipamala on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:32PM (#33114361)
I made a similar thing for the Lex Friedman podcast. It transcribes the audio and runs it through a summarization model. You can then search the entire corpus to find relevant snippets from episodes:

http://lexicon.lol

Re:How to really know another person by ephbit on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:47AM (#33119977)
FYI .. all episodes are available transcribed here: https://www.happyscribe.com/public/lex-fridman-podcast-artif...
Re:How to really know another person by ephbit on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:43AM (#33118144)
You can search here:

https://www.happyscribe.com/public

Didn't find Hidden Brain through a quick search, maybe it's there and I didn't have enough patience.

I'd love to know if there are other services similar to happyscribe.com .. anyone know any?

It adds so much value to a podcast to be able to search for words/text and read instead of just listening.

Also, if you want to add your own thoughts to something that was said, with a transcription you can simply make a PDF and attach an annotation or highlight sentences.

If like me, you like to listen to podcasts and take notes and add your own thoughts, and if you have found some handy tools for that or come up with your custom convenient workflows, I'd really like to know.

Re:How to really know another person by leobg on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:52AM (#33118503)
Thanks for the recommendation. Didn't know that service.

Why are you asking for similar services? What's something that you feel is missing on this one? If you could change it or add functionality, what would you change or add?

Re:How to really know another person by ephbit on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:44AM (#33119958)
They only have a selection of all podcasts.

I once used their trial tool, to transcribe some episode. The functionality is good, but it is commercial. I wouldn't use it often enough to justify signing up.

So if there were some similar tool where I don't have to sign up to some paid service just to transcribe one episode here or there, that'd be neat.

Read of Whisper in the comments. I like that it doesn't appear to require some API keys to use their model. But I'd rather not install yet another Python package that likely comes with a whole bunch of new dependencies.

Re:How to really know another person by ggerganov on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:46AM (#33121210)
You can try my C/C++ port of Whisper:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

No dependencies, no Python, runs efficiently on the CPU.

Re:How to really know another person by ephbit on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:33PM (#33124469)
Thanks, does indeed look neat.