Transcript Workflow
This is where we coordinate to get transcripts of every episode completed. If you want to help, join The Portal Transcripts Discord. This is part of the Transcript Completion Project.
Getting Started
Join the Transcripts Discord
Pick an Episode that You'd Like to Work On
See What Status It's In
Working on a Transcript
Make a Machine Readable Version
- Get the MP3
- Import the MP3 into Descript
- Export a VTT file from Descript
- Check the "Remove ums/uhs Checkbox"
- Upload VTT file to wiki
- Link VTT file in The Portal Media Progress
Run Through Alex's VTT Parsing Program
- Get Alex to explain this shit
- Export MediaWiki-friendly text
- Paste into Wiki!
- PROFIT!
Make Human Readable Version
- Add your name to the "Responsibility" column, so people know who to contact with question.
Making a Transcript (Old. Delete me.)
The programs below have been useful for automatically generating a transcription of audio or video, which then only needs editing to properly identify speakers, fix grammatical issues, and be made human-readable. Once this has been done transcripts can be exported as Microsoft Word documents, which allows for easy find-and-replace editing that implements wiki-formatting syntax before copying the finalized transcript onto its respective wiki page. In addition, exporting and uploading to the wiki a .vtt version of the transcript allows it to be used in many of our community projects. Some of the listed programs have free trials/transcription time, so don't hesitate to get involved!
Each time a new YouTube video is released, we need to take the audio from that and upload it to the CDN on the wiki. This will ensure that all of our time codes are matching up.
Annotating a Transcript
Progress
The Portal Podcast Human Readable Transcripts
| # | Title | Transcript Status | Wiki Page Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 31: to be broadcast | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 30 | 30: Ross Douthat - The Rave before the Fall | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 29 | 29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| Special 1 | A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look | Transcript needs editing. | File:Geometric-Unity-A-First-Look - YouTube.vtt |
| 28 | 28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew | Transcript incomplete and need machine-readable transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 27 | 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses | Transcript incomplete and need machine-readable transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 26 | 26: James O’Keefe: What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century | Machine-readable transcript complete, need human-readable transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 25 | 25: The Construct: Jeffrey Epstein | Transcript finished and linked below. | Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 24 | 24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants | Auto-transcription complete. Ping @Jayg#7232 for access to edit in Descript | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 23 | 23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits | Auto-transcription complete. Ping @Jayg#7232 for access to edit in Descript | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 22 | 22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness | Transcript finished and linked below | Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 21 | 21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart | Transcript finished and linked below | Needs linking. |
| 20 | 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy | Transcript complete, needs editing and cleaning up. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Needs Sponsors section. |
| 19 | 19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC | Transcript complete. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 18 | 18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020 | Transcript generated. | Needs linking in the transcript section. |
| 17 | 17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique” | Transcript finished and linked below | Finished compiling words, references, and names. Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 16 | 16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized | Transcript generated but not complete, needs much cleaning, formatting, and speaker identification. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. Needs Sponsors section. |
| 15 | 15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself | Transcript generated but not complete, needs much cleaning and formatting, need machine-readable transcript. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 14 | 14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians | Machine-readable transcript complete, need human-readable transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 13 | 13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 12 | 12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine | Transcript generated but not complete, needs much cleaning and speaker identification. No machine-readable transcript. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 11 | 11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends | Transcript complete, needs cleaning up. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 10 | 10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree | Transcript generated with speaker identification and timestamps. Editing for readability, spelling, and grammar would be helpful. | Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 9 | 9: Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 8 | 8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore | Transcript complete. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 7 | 7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X | No transcript. | Needs transcript with linking and subcategories. |
| 6 | 6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual | Transcript generated with speaker identification and timestamps. Editing for readability, spelling, and grammar would be helpful. | Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 5 | 5: Rabbi Wolpe - “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...” | Transcript generated with speaker identification and timestamps. Editing for readability, spelling, and grammar would be helpful. | Needs linking and subcategories. Needs Sponsors section. |
| 4 | 4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception | Transcript generated with speaker identification and timestamps. Editing for readability, spelling, and grammar would be helpful. | Needs linking and subcategories. |
| 3 | 3: Werner Herzog | Transcript complete. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 2 | 2: What Is The Portal? | Transcript complete. | Needs linking in the transcript section. Transcript section needs subcategories by topic. |
| 1 | 1: Peter Thiel | Transcript complete. | Needs linking in the transcript section. |
| 0 | 0: Welcome to The Portal | Transcript complete. | Wiki page complete. |
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