Laura Kalbag @laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com

My not being able to sleep means there’s now a transcript and captions up on our latest #SmallIsBeautiful video.

We go through our streaming setups, how we do it on a budget, including equipment and creating transcripts and captions.

https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-04/

I’m going to talk about making captions and transcripts, and go through a couple of services I’ve used for automating speech-to-text. If you want to join in/ask questions live, we’ll be doing that too! This evening 5pm Irish time.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/105588712652835366

And now we have the captions and transcript up on our site for the Small is Beautiful #3 livestream.

This was a really great discussion, so much fascinating detail on the strategies for introducing more ethical (and easy-to-use!) computers into schools.

https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-03/

I really really believe that captions and transcripts should be included with videos by default. But blimey, doing hour-long video streams every week has really been testing my commitment to that. Especially when we don’t have money to spend. But I’m determined!

Been testing Simon Says for transcripts/captions today and I think I might be in love with a web app that’s going to save me hours and hours.

https://www.simonsays.ai

Automated transcript has great accuracy as a starting point (including for non-native English speakers!) and combined with the well-designed editing tools, I’m able to edit so much faster. Prices are also affordable for our tiny not-for-profit organisation.

The live stream is this evening (5pm Irish time) on our site at https://small-tech.org/events/small-is-beautiful/

This afternoon’s live stream has some fantastic guests. Let’s hope last week’s surprise guest behaves himself this time…

I’ve been using Thisten, which is a really affordable starting point, and editing from there. If anyone has any tips on other tools and workflows for producing both transcripts and captions from the same source material, I’d love to hear them.

If anyone has any feedback on the formatting/readability of either the transcripts or captions, please let me know. As I’m putting all this effort in, I want to make sure they’re as usable and useful as they can be!

Just added captions and transcripts to both of our Small is Beautiful live stream videos.

https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-01/
https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-02/

For this evening’s stream, and future streams, I’m going to try to get the transcript and caption done and up much faster.

Not going to lie, it is hard work and time-consuming creating a transcript/captions for hour-long conversational streams.

Stream starting shortly 😄 https://small-tech.org/events/small-is-beautiful/

Snow Boy loves even the littlest dusting of snow. Lots of energy this morning.

Apparently my site is one of only five sites reviewed by Terms of Service; Didn’t Read that has been given a Privacy Grade A rating. (Because I don’t track anyone.)

Strange/cool thing to wake up to on a Monday morning!

https://beta.tosdr.org/en/service/2140

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/kogsuw/we_are_terms_of_service_didnt_read_ask_us_anything/ghrk2ny/

Missing my family and friends this Christmas so I made a silly Osky card to send them.

Lots of love to everyone, especially those staying away to keep the ones they love safe x