This is an amazing bit of tech (Cisco WebEx, credit where it’s due). I recorded a meeting with a customer, and it’s made it available online for any of the attendees to download, but it’s also transcribed it into text.

This is quite remarkable, and it’s done a brilliant job of capturing speech, but it makes me sound like a rambling idiot. I’m not sure if it’s worse than hearing my own voice.

That’s no good – surely the whole point of keeping the minutes is that you can later claim that you said what you wish you’d said, except you didn’t think of it at the time?

It’s all rambling nonsense!

Multiple ways, unfortunately, in a, there’s multiple ways of configuring your deployments for different runtime far. override is one. So stop me if you, if, you know, all this, I don’t know if you know, or would you like me to talk about it.

Teams can do it too, in pretty much real time. It tickles me that it translates “fee earner” into Fiona. 🙂

I watched Teams do a weird one today where every time this woman referred to a CRO it would start to transcribe a word like Congleton and then correct itself to CRO.

We’ve had some unfortunate mangling of Indigenous group names. Once I saw Gubbi Gubbi people get transcribed as The Hobbit-Hobbit people.

It’s all rambling nonsense!

Yea, there were a few articles written about this around the time Trump became president. Basically taking the “real” transcripts of Bush, Obama and Trump talking, and the “official” transcript which is edited and released afterwards. Read a Bush transcript in Obamas voice in your head and it sounds intelligent. Read an Obama transcript thinking it’s Trump and it sounds like a blithering idiot, inspite of the fact everyone thinks Obama was a great public speaker.

The inference was you can make anyone sound like an idiot if you quote them directly. Once written down there was no immediately discernable difference between them. Everyone uses the wrong words, jumps back and forth in a sentence to correct themselves, pauses in the wrong places. It’s nigh on impossible to actually speak the way you write, which is why autocue exists, and why half the time politicians give the press a written copy of the statement before it’s made.