Transcribed police scanners in real-time
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Transcribed police scanners in real-time
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Re: Transcribed police scanners in real-time
#2I really like this idea - it also has the side effect of making all of these streams easily searchable later on.
That being said, transcription still isn't at the point where it can understand radio garble.
> because I'm going to take that group that someone over the Willing. Can you raise Lieutenant lady and having semi-open Buddhist month
> you know the carrot for you and Hudson no accident
Reminds me of the early days of Google Voice voicemail transcription.
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#3This is great. Is it open source? I would love to know more about how it works. Where do you get the source data? What is required in order to add more cities?
Thanks for sharing!
Re: Transcribed police scanners in real-time
#4I really like this idea - it also has the side effect of making all of these streams easily searchable later on. That being said, transcription still isn't at the point where it can understand radio garble. > because I'm going to take that group that someone over the Willing. Can you raise Lieutenant lady and having semi-open Buddhist month > you know the carrot for you and Hudson no accident Reminds me of the early…
Absolutely agree. I feel like the next step here would be to:
* Put the audio clip next to the transcribed text
* Flag transcribed text which fails some heuristics
* Allows users to suggest edits to the transcription
* Train the transcription models on contributed edits + police specific lingo
Re: Transcribed police scanners in real-time
#5This is great. Is it open source? I would love to know more about how it works. Where do you get the source data? What is required in order to add more cities? Thanks for sharing!
I would assume that its piping the audio output from a radio receiver to some live transcription API. Would also love to find out how it actually works.
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#6This is very impressive.
I'm the owner of Broadcastify.com, where presumably these streams are being transcribed from. We've dabbled in this space and looked at real-world approaches to taking something like this to market, but transcribing 7000+ streams to text seems like an expensive (computational) and ($$) effort that needs a lot of investigation.
Note to mention that the individual lexicons between streams are drastically different.
I wonder how the developer has done the integration to our streams... because I never heard from them :)
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#7I built something similar to this, open-source, here: https://feeds.talonvoice.com
It's not currently streaming any feeds because Google Speech is pretty expensive, but I have the expertise and plan to train my own speech models that would be less expensive to run and more accurate than Google at this task as well.
The main difference between this and murph is my `feeds` site has UI for users to listen to the audio and fix/vote on transcriptions, and corrections are propagated quickly to other users.
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#8Example audio: https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/29351
This is close enough to the Seattle feed that you can do a compare & contrast.
Heard: "clear my first call ocean nora 470" On the site: "charlie my first call"
So, yeah, this still has a long long way to go. I considered and discarded this in 2011 because it was pure insanity, and as another comment suggests, it's highly context-sensitive.
"ECR" is El Camino Real. "Vets" is Veterans Blvd.
But...
"Code 99" is the emergency button... for one department... and it means something else entirely for another, just 20 miles apart.
I'd love to have it, but it still seems out of reach.
Re: Transcribed police scanners in real-time
#9This is very impressive. I'm the owner of Broadcastify.com, where presumably these streams are being transcribed from. We've dabbled in this space and looked at real-world approaches to taking something like this to market, but transcribing 7000+ streams to text seems like an expensive (computational) and ($$) effort that needs a lot of investigation. Note to mention that the individual lexicons between streams are d…
Hey Lindsay, I'm the one who just added EBRCS to Calls. Wondering if a solution to both cost problems would be to (optionally) have submitters upload a transcript along with each call? Could build a model into trunk-recorder maybe?
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#10I really like this idea - it also has the side effect of making all of these streams easily searchable later on. That being said, transcription still isn't at the point where it can understand radio garble. > because I'm going to take that group that someone over the Willing. Can you raise Lieutenant lady and having semi-open Buddhist month > you know the carrot for you and Hudson no accident Reminds me of the early…
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