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Transpod
Transpod
by A-Team
Transcend Podcasts! By transcribing audible information to text, information becomes more readily available. Transpod is a real-time tool to enable crowd-sourced transcription of audio.
Judging Instructions
Chrome works best, Safari supposedly too.
Click the category lanes to create a new cue. Confirm editing with the return key. Drag cue front and end to resize. Use zooming a lot.
If you select a new podcast we don’t know yet, give the job queue a minute to generate MP3, OGG audio, and waveform images; then reload.
Who
How
Club Mate, CoffeScript, Backbone.js, Stylus, Socket.io, node-png, gstreamer
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trycatcherjudgelachlanhardy
contestantThis looks like it’s going to be incredibly useful if you keep working on it. At the moment, it’s still a little too hard to use and the design limits the benefits (I’m not referring to the colours, I kind of like outlandish, but not being able to read the content in lanes etc)
chrismatthieujudgesuper awesome!
ryanmcgrath
judgeDesign looks like something out of the 90s. Blunt, sure, but I’ve gotta say it.
Overall a pretty useful utility, I think, one I hope the team runs with after the competition. Could see it being very useful to people!
SethGBjudgeepeli
contestantGood idea there is need for this, but I didn’t manage to figure out how to use it :D Or my Chrome 13 just failed with it…
astro
contestantWe added some usage help in the Judging Instructions above.
(I know it won’t get us a full completeness score if you have to read them. :)
codepo8judgeThis is a great idea and concept but the design of the interface makes it hard to use. I could not find the scrollbars in the editor at first, I had to reload to see the waveform visualisation (please add a “generating” message) and it was tough to move the sliders around. Check how audacity shows it, that would be good to have.
therazorbladejudgeNice idea. The interface can use a lot of design help but it works well. One feature that was really missing is the ability to just get assigned a block. Right now it is a bit too free form. Another idea is to use some third-party voice to text service to provide an initial draft to fix. Also, it would be nice to get a clean transcript view with indication where there are gaps.
ncb000gt
contestantAwesome utility with a pretty bad/unusable design. However, this has a lot of potential.
chrissharkeyjudgeI think this is a great idea especially for educational podcasts/university lectures etc. I could see this being used extensively. The speed and live nature of it really impressed me and I definitely could see this turning into a full-fledged product. My main criticism was the design/graphics, I think it let it down in the sense that the text was cut off too quickly and it just looked cartoonish. I think with a more fleshed out design (and I realise you didn’t have the time for this), it would look and work wonderfully. Well done!
phillyqueso
contestant
The ui for the text needs work, but everything seems to function ok. Nice work :)