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Re:Show HN: I made a website for searching police scanner tr... by BandButcher on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:39PM (#41325620)
bookmarked! sweet app

are you doing this real time or in a batch mode/daily scrape?

personally it would be useful to maybe subscribe to key words and get notifications for specific cities

Re:Show HN: I made a website for searching police scanner tr... by notjoemartinez on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:58PM (#41325673)
> are you doing this real time or in a batch mode/daily scrape?

I'm transcribing the previous day starting 1AM every day, which is about as much as my old MacBook I have can handle. I'm in the process of applying for the Broadcastify Calls API which should give me access to real time feeds but it will be a challenge to get the compute needed to handle real time transcriptions.

> personally it would be useful to maybe subscribe to key words and get notifications for specific cities

This is a feature I have planned. It will come with a major disclaimer about whisper transcript hallucinations.

Edit: spelling

Re:Show HN: I made a website for searching police scanner tr... by BandButcher on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:06PM (#41325696)
excellent, keep it up
Re:Show HN: I made a website for searching police scanner tr... by matteason on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:16AM (#41327426)
> I'm in the process of applying for the Broadcastify Calls API which should give me access to real time feeds

I'd be really interested to hear how you get on with this - I've been wanting to add these kinds of feeds to https://ambiph.one but it looks like they're not issuing new licenses for the feeds and the Calls API looks like it's write-only from the docs?