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So, I'm pushing my way through the transcripts done by Speedscriber. And they are a mess. And it's taking a long time. I hope it's worth. But I will know the interviews really well by the time I'm done. And Speedscriber is allowing to highlight particularly salient passages.
But the thing I like most is how Speedscriber translates Micheal D'Asaro's name. It gets Michael pretty much all the time. But the last name is usually comes out as 'the sorrow'
Who knew machines could be poetic?
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I used to collect odd Chinese-to-English translations, not necessarily Chinglish, but just unusual things like that. I had this aspiration of getting enough to compose an epic poem. But after a while, i just lost track of that project.
How much did speedscriber cost you for all that?
As it happens, I too am transcribing. I just finished Ally's interview from Dublin. 4 down, 5 to go, but the last 2 are shorter. Dublin was great, but now I gotta pay the man.
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I'm deep into the transcripts. Slowly and laboriously cleaning up all the mistakes the automated transcription service made. When I first went down this path, I was think the transcription was operating at about 80% accuracy. I'm going to have to lower that figure to 40 or 50%. It's ugly. It's taking forever.
And it doesn't help that some of the interviews are terrible. When I did the interview I transcribed yesterday, I had a good feeling about the interview. Full of juicy bit. But after going through the transcript and cleaning it up, I don't know why I was so positive about this interview. This person couldn't string a coherent narrative together if their life depended on it. It was maddening. They would be talking about a really good description of Michael and then would veer wildly into the grass and never finish the thought about Michael. And the whole thing was punctuated by 'You know' and 'and'. Arg.
Which is why today's transcript is better. A delightful palate cleanser. I am highlighting almost everything to use in the film later. Thank god for Vinnie Bradford. ( See, Michael was cutting a dead limb off a tree but had the ladder on the wrong side of the branch. So, when he finished the cut, the ladder fell to the ground)
Okay. Back to eating the elephant.
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The transcripts giveth. The transcripts taketh away. Yesterday, I felt like I was dealing with an Alzheimer's patient who didn't really know who Michael was but had a very clear glimpse into his own fencing career. But he talked like he kept spotting shiny things on the floor.
Today, it's Nilo Otero. Nilo Otero rocks. He can tell stories. He has good stories to tell. I like Nilo. Everyone should be more like Nilo.
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I just transcribed my interview with Orla Brady of Into the Badlands yesterday. She has a lovely Irish lilt and was a delight to interview - a gorgeous woman with a lot of great things to say about the show, and a nice anecdote about working with Pierce Brosnan on The Foreigner, but I don't know how I'll work that in. Actors tell great stories. They know how to present themselves.
Just three more ITB interviews to transcribe - two short ones, Aramis and Babou, and a complex one with the two weapon makers because I'll have to tease out who is saying what, but that's a key one.
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(01-17-2018, 12:01 PM)Greg Wrote: ...But he talked like he kept spotting shiny things on the floor. Maybe you could intersperse little animated clips of what he keeps seeing on the floor.
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Almost cut my hair
Happened just the other day
It's gettin' kind of long
I could've said it was in my way
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And some days the slog isn't quite so sloggy.
And you come across a story, that has nothing to do with Michael, but you were really glad to hear it at the time. But had forgotten you heard it until you came across it again in the transcripts.
Like that time epee fencer Paul Levy almost killed Norman Rockwell's son Peter during a bout. Good times.
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Coach: And we would sit around and he would just tell us the most fantastic stories.
Interviewer: Oh? What were those stories?
Coach: I can't remember. But they were wonderful
Interviewer:..........
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Coach: But here is a story about me that I can tell you instead.
Interviewer: [Kill me now!]
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Coach: But I have a bunch of great stories I can't tell you.
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Finally, I am hearing some goddamn Stro stories. We interviewed this shop owner up in Milbrae. He knew a few...
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