10-13-2025, 07:02 AM
Ad the speed can’t be beat – 5 years of weekly podcasts took roughly 4 hours to completely transcribe by Whisper, and that amount of time was simply because it was set as a lower-priority action in the queueing system. Knowing how long the total time for all the uploaded episodes of my podcast are sitting in that collection is a little involved, but my back of napkin estimation is it’s two and a half solid days of me talking about technology and emotion, ranging subjects from programming and compilers to summer camp and family. I can assure you – I was not going to transcribe these podcasts anytime soon, and I was not going to ask someone to do it. , I’m in no position to be able to record four podcasts in a month and create paragraphs of text from them.
Which brings me to the latest, continual tinkering
With the tools and environment available to analyze materials with algorithms. I began asking a large language model to look at the generated transcriptions and create a summary of a given podcast episode.
Two-plus years into generalized algorithmic intensity access, it’s still very much a lumpy and oddly spell-casting endeavor. Instead of asking it to “summarize this transcription”, my request reads like a headmaster at a school or a Dungeons and Dragons game text:
You read transcripts of a podcast and carefully
Write out descriptions, in the form of narrative paragraphs, to accurately describe the content of the podcast. Longer and more complete descriptions are better, and encouraged. You describe the main subjects, conclusions by the participants, and provide helpful context for the subjects. The podcast you listen to is:followed by the transcription of the podcast, time-codes and all.
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Physical address: Blk 34 Lot 5 Easthomes 3 Subd., Estefania, Bacolod City, Philippines,6100 Negros Occidental
Phone: +639858085805
Email: [email protected]
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Which brings me to the latest, continual tinkering
With the tools and environment available to analyze materials with algorithms. I began asking a large language model to look at the generated transcriptions and create a summary of a given podcast episode.
Two-plus years into generalized algorithmic intensity access, it’s still very much a lumpy and oddly spell-casting endeavor. Instead of asking it to “summarize this transcription”, my request reads like a headmaster at a school or a Dungeons and Dragons game text:
You read transcripts of a podcast and carefully
Write out descriptions, in the form of narrative paragraphs, to accurately describe the content of the podcast. Longer and more complete descriptions are better, and encouraged. You describe the main subjects, conclusions by the participants, and provide helpful context for the subjects. The podcast you listen to is:followed by the transcription of the podcast, time-codes and all.
contact us
Physical address: Blk 34 Lot 5 Easthomes 3 Subd., Estefania, Bacolod City, Philippines,6100 Negros Occidental
Phone: +639858085805
Email: [email protected]
https://phonelist.io