Mossad Ayoob explains why you shouldn't drop the slide on an empty chamber:
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for some reason I find it easier to read what he writes than to listen to him. Sigh.
ReplyDelete" I find it easier to read what he writes than to listen to him"
ReplyDeleteI do not disagree, and that is also true with a great many YT vids. There's - sometimes - a way to do that, poorly constructed as it is.
Once a YT vid is >24 hrs old, sometimes a transcript is available. Won't work for embedded vids, so open it in YT, deactivate all your script controls (I'm assuming here you have multiple types of security software running which may incude NoScript), start, then stop, play of the vid. Look below the lower right hand corner of the vid and you will see 3 horizontal dots. Right-click on them and if the vid is >24-30 hours old Google's AI may have worked its inadequate magic to create a text transcript of the audio.
It's as sloppy and incorrect a text transcript as the closed caption text that displays during the vid (it's the same text), and it's presented in a narrow phone-type column which is a PITA to read (I despise the universal phone-type formatting of stuff on AlGore's InterTubes, but today's older children don't seem to own anything else and there's too much money at stake in the social media biz to inconvenience them) so it is what it is. One can copy-and-paste the text into a more reasonable text editor like Word or Apache Open Office, where it will still display in that #%@$ing phone-column display. Some scripting magic will remove the line end commands to stretch the text to full page width. The AI text conversion failures will still be present, but it's (slightly) more readable. Also more saveable as a PDF if one is so inclined (assuming you have a native text-to-PDF conversion engine in your text editor (Apache does, don't know about Word).
I would prefer the text conversion be simpler, better, and more universal; trained public speakers speak at ~250 words per minute, I read at well over 2X that, and decent text isn't butchered by AI's failure to properly process enunciation failures. That, and in text I can skip over Barney's "once upon a time" BS because Barney, Cletus and their cousins have less than no clue about how to present anything useful in videos (there should be a - very expensive and highly restrictive - permitting requirement for anyone with a video recording device and internet access).