Comments on: How Podcasts Will Get Cooler http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/ Health Information | Geekery Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: davidrothman.net » EveryZing: Search the Transcript of a (Medical/LIS) Podcast/Video http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/comment-page-1/#comment-135895 davidrothman.net » EveryZing: Search the Transcript of a (Medical/LIS) Podcast/Video Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:32:53 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/#comment-135895 [...] Almost two years ago, I wrote: Eventually, the metadata of an audio file (any audio file) should contain not just a text transcript of the audio content, but searchable transcript, indexed to minutes and seconds of the audio. Lets say you want to download the latest Library 2.0 Gang podcast specifcally because you want to hear the first thing Michael Stephens has to say on the topic du jour. You should be able to search the Podcast for the word “Stephens”, select the first first hit in the returned search results, and be taken instantly to the first moment in the audio when the word “Stephens” is spoken. [...] [...] Almost two years ago, I wrote: Eventually, the metadata of an audio file (any audio file) should contain not just a text transcript of the audio content, but searchable transcript, indexed to minutes and seconds of the audio. Lets say you want to download the latest Library 2.0 Gang podcast specifcally because you want to hear the first thing Michael Stephens has to say on the topic du jour. You should be able to search the Podcast for the word “Stephens”, select the first first hit in the returned search results, and be taken instantly to the first moment in the audio when the word “Stephens” is spoken. [...]

]]> By: Joy Austria http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Joy Austria Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:00:44 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/#comment-401 In response to your message... (i.e. profs. requiring a time stamp for information cited from a podcast): Are researchers (student or professional) citing from podcasts? Is anyone aware of any statistics or citation analysis studies? In response to your message… (i.e. profs. requiring a time stamp for information cited from a podcast):

Are researchers (student or professional) citing from podcasts?

Is anyone aware of any statistics or citation analysis studies?

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/comment-page-1/#comment-394 David Rothman Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:52:00 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/#comment-394 Hi Joy- There are a number of podcast transcription services now (try googling for: "podcast transcription" service). I think the biggest incentive for podcasters to use transcription services is so that their content can be indexed and searched by search engines- and I think podcast transcription will probably grow in popularity for a bit. But no service currently indexes the text transcritpion to mm:ss of the audio. I'm betting that they're coming, though. The trick is which will come first: players that can handle this sort of metadata, or services that create it. Hi Joy-

There are a number of podcast transcription services now (try googling for: “podcast transcription” service). I think the biggest incentive for podcasters to use transcription services is so that their content can be indexed and searched by search engines- and I think podcast transcription will probably grow in popularity for a bit. But no service currently indexes the text transcritpion to mm:ss of the audio. I’m betting that they’re coming, though. The trick is which will come first: players that can handle this sort of metadata, or services that create it.

]]> By: Joy Austria http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Joy Austria Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:28:57 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/#comment-393 Great post that is somewhat relevant to an independent study I'm planning for the fall semester (Content Analysis of Science Podcasts: An Evaluation Guide for Librarians). I've given some thought to transcripts accompanying podcasts but for fact checking purposes. For example, let's say a student cites a podcast in her final paper. If for whatever reason her professor wants to check on that citation how will the professor do it? Listen to an entire podcast? Great post that is somewhat relevant to an independent study I’m planning for the fall semester (Content Analysis of Science Podcasts: An Evaluation Guide for Librarians). I’ve given some thought to transcripts accompanying podcasts but for fact checking purposes. For example, let’s say a student cites a podcast in her final paper. If for whatever reason her professor wants to check on that citation how will the professor do it? Listen to an entire podcast?

]]> By: Alex Grigg http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Alex Grigg Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:01:59 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/15/how-podcasts-will-get-cooler/#comment-321 Podzinger (http://www.podzinger.com/) attempts to do something very close to what you're talking about, but they use some sort of voice recognition sotware to analyze podcasts. They don't really seem to create any transferable metadata that could be used by other applications. I haven't been terribly impressed with some of the transcripts they've produced. Doing searches for "Lexmark," for example, mostly just gives me false hits. It does seem to do somewhat better with normal, everyday, dictionary-type words. Also, it's a little unclear exactly which podacts they are analyzing. If nothing else, though, it's at least fun to play around with Podzinger (http://www.podzinger.com/) attempts to do something very close to what you’re talking about, but they use some sort of voice recognition sotware to analyze podcasts. They don’t really seem to create any transferable metadata that could be used by other applications. I haven’t been terribly impressed with some of the transcripts they’ve produced. Doing searches for “Lexmark,” for example, mostly just gives me false hits. It does seem to do somewhat better with normal, everyday, dictionary-type words.

Also, it’s a little unclear exactly which podacts they are analyzing. If nothing else, though, it’s at least fun to play around with

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