If there isn’t, I recommend to the podcast creator to consult with e.g. the Clearer Thinking podcast team on how they do cost-effective partly-automated transcripts nowadays. Here’s an article on their thinking from early 2022, which was before e.g. OpenAI Whisper was released.
I think this LW post would be significantly more useful with a full transcript, even if automated, for instance because it’s easier to discuss quotes in the comments. (On the other hand, there’s a risk of getting misquoted or directing excessive scrutiny to language that’s less polished than it would be in essay form, or that may suffer from outright transcription errors.)
You mean this? FWIW I do transcriptions for AXRP—it takes a bunch of time to get something I percieve as “not embarrassingly bad”, and as mentioned in the sister comment to yours, I’m basically making the tradeoff for this episode of publishing more episodes while having them be less polished.
Yes, that’s the article I meant. I understand the tradeoff you’re making, and given the costs you cite, I can totally see that that’s not worthwhile for you, especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
That said, I’ve mailed the Clearer Thinking podcast team to ask about more details regarding their current transcription workflow (which is currently a combination of automatic transcription via Otter.ai, followed by a hired human transcriptionist, to minimize required staff time), and will post any responses I get.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself. (As a general matter of economic arbitrage, nobody who’s being paid California salaries should spend their own time to produce transcripts themselves.)
especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
Yeah—this podcast is a side-project of my main podcast which is a side-project relative to my day job (CHAI PhD student), so time minimization is of the essence.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself.
I’ll chuck in US$30 of my own money. (would be more if I had a better sense of the quality bar you were going to reach)
If there isn’t, I recommend to the podcast creator to consult with e.g. the Clearer Thinking podcast team on how they do cost-effective partly-automated transcripts nowadays. Here’s an article on their thinking from early 2022, which was before e.g. OpenAI Whisper was released.
I think this LW post would be significantly more useful with a full transcript, even if automated, for instance because it’s easier to discuss quotes in the comments. (On the other hand, there’s a risk of getting misquoted or directing excessive scrutiny to language that’s less polished than it would be in essay form, or that may suffer from outright transcription errors.)
You mean this? FWIW I do transcriptions for AXRP—it takes a bunch of time to get something I percieve as “not embarrassingly bad”, and as mentioned in the sister comment to yours, I’m basically making the tradeoff for this episode of publishing more episodes while having them be less polished.
Concretely, I guess it would cost me ~$270 plus 2-4 hours of my time.
Yes, that’s the article I meant. I understand the tradeoff you’re making, and given the costs you cite, I can totally see that that’s not worthwhile for you, especially if higher quality trades off against higher quantity.
That said, I’ve mailed the Clearer Thinking podcast team to ask about more details regarding their current transcription workflow (which is currently a combination of automatic transcription via Otter.ai, followed by a hired human transcriptionist, to minimize required staff time), and will post any responses I get.
Alternatively, if someone offered to pay me $200, or $40 per hour I actually needed (whichever is lower), I’d produce the transcript myself. (As a general matter of economic arbitrage, nobody who’s being paid California salaries should spend their own time to produce transcripts themselves.)
@MondSemmel Lightcone will pay for this. DM me if you want to discuss details :)
Sure, I’ve sent you a DM.
Yeah—this podcast is a side-project of my main podcast which is a side-project relative to my day job (CHAI PhD student), so time minimization is of the essence.
I’ll chuck in US$30 of my own money. (would be more if I had a better sense of the quality bar you were going to reach)