The Owen Wilson Wow API

Post by rendall » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

kingcharles wrote: post #50

recuter wrote: post #27

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I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?

I've done some commercial CC work recently for a studio and it is REALLY, REALLY hard work. Way harder than it looks to get it right. Some pieces I would do would have computer-generated first pass. This would be good in places where the words were very clear and the vocabulary was regular. But TV and films can use a lot of weird domain words (see e.g. sci-fi or fantasy) that the computer can't track. And the compute…

Post by rendall » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:14 AM UTC

freediver wrote: post #6

Why?

Post by ameminator » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:50 AM UTC

Post by mehulkar » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 6:55 AM UTC

khazhoux wrote: post #64

I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them so…

Post by mikeyjk » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:11 AM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #68

khazhoux wrote: post #64

I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them so…

1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself. 2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally. 3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be…