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As part of the SPINDLE project we are producing a set of automatic transcriptions and automatic keywords for the university podcasts to improve the OER discoverability. In this post we are going to...
View ArticleSpindle Project in a snapshot
Please find below a figure representing the main goal of the SPINDLE project using as an example one of our most succesful podcasts, The nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate...
View ArticleProject Spindle Update: Condor Cluster
Stop the presses! As part of the SPINDLE project we are running the whole University of Oxford podcast database through an automatic speech recognizer using the Phonetics Laboratory Condor cluster....
View ArticleSPINDLE Speech to text caption engine for media producers
The SPINDLE project is proud to announce we have now extended the functionality of the keyword extraction tool by creating a much bigger set of tools based around a captioning editor – the idea is that...
View ArticleSPINDLE project: Lessons Learnt
The SPINDLE project is wrapping up and will end in September 2012. Please find below some of the lessons learnt during the project. We can obtain good keywords even if the automatic transcription has...
View ArticleSPINDLE Project Outputs
SPINDLE set up and documented a workflow to generate the automatic transcription of future open access audio and video podcasts using an online platform concentrating on generating automatic keyword...
View ArticleSPINDLE Frequently Asked Questions
What is Spindle? SPINDLE has been a project funded by JISC as part of their “Rapid Innovation in Open Educational Resources” programme. The project experimented with speech-to-text technologies to...
View ArticleSPINDLE Automatic Keyword Generation: Step by Step
In this post we are going to show the automatic generation of keywords from the automatic transcription of a podcast. First of all, please find below a figure showing the main workflow of the SPINDLE...
View ArticleSPINDLE – Benefits and Impact
Project SPINDLE is about to end. As lead on the project here at the Academic IT services I’ve tried to summarise the main impact and benefits of the work: Training – improved skills within the...
View ArticleSPINDLE – Speech to Text to Keywords to Captions – The Grand Finale
SPINDLE: Increasing OER discoverability by improved keyword metadata via automatic speech to text transcription. A summary of the project using the words of the voice-over that accompanies the SPINDLE...
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