Comments on post “Anchor Interviews”
James Mundy
@_jamesmundy · Founder, Foundbite
This is a superb idea. Haven't tried it (in UK) but it looks like a very simple and easy user experience, also a very novel application of the Twilio API. Is there a limit on the call length? I'd be also interested to hear if you're using a combination of machine transcription and human or just machine?
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Binoy Xavier Joy
@binoyxj · Technology Evangelist
@_jamesmundy No limit AFAIK. The interview gets split into segments though.
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James Mundy
@_jamesmundy · Founder, Foundbite
@binoyxj that must be to get around Twilio's 2 minute limit for recording transcription. Wonder how good the transcriptions are if they are done by machine?
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Maya Prohovnik
@mayafish · Operations at Anchor
@_jamesmundy Thank you so much James! There's no limit on the interview time, but as @binoyxj pointed out, we do splice the interview up into 5 minute segments when it's published to your Anchor station. (That's less of a technical limitation and more because we want to respect the format of our platform, where stations are made up of <5 min segments.)
Currently, the transcriptions are automatically created - we're using IBM's Watson to generate them - so we definitely recommend reading through and adjusting the transcriptions before posting them. But our hope is that this saves you at least a few steps!
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James Mundy
@_jamesmundy · Founder, Foundbite
@mayafish @binoyxj Really interesting, thanks for the info!
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Binoy Xavier Joy
@binoyxj · Technology Evangelist
@mayafish Any plans to apply some sort of post-processing to enhance the interview audio fidelity? The audio output right now is not so appealing IMO. Are the audio over wired/ POTS telephones any better?
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