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1. blanto+h7[view] [source] 2020-06-02 14:09:32
>>eloran+(OP)
Hi there! I'm the owner and operator of Broadcastify, which is the platform that powers all the apps that provide police scanners and public safety communications online. I'm an active HN reader and would be glad to answer any questions folks have.

It's an interesting business to be in these days...

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2. autojo+ww1[view] [source] 2020-06-02 21:32:11
>>blanto+h7
Is there a text transcript feature for users who may want to search through the communications? I'm curious how well those speech-to-text tools work for the audio feeds.
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3. lunixb+DP1[view] [source] 2020-06-02 23:25:03
>>autojo+ww1
It's a hard problem. I'm prototyping this here [1]. Any user can tweak or vote on transcriptions, so my goal is to use the user annotations to help train models and make it better.

[1] https://feeds.talonvoice.com

Repo is here if you need to report (or fix) bugs in the webapp: https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds

If you want to help with development, reach out and I can onboard + give some test data.

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4. dspoka+q32[view] [source] 2020-06-03 01:15:22
>>lunixb+DP1
Great to see you working on this!

I was wondering if you could estimate what it would cost to have always on recording of all these radio conversations, cost of running this speech2text ML and cost of labeling this data.

I think having these rough estimates will make donations easier for people.

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5. imroot+6D2[view] [source] 2020-06-03 07:18:02
>>dspoka+q32
I've got a year+ of the Ohio MARCS-IP site in Hamilton County Ohio recorded. Let me know if you need some data -- I'd be more than happy to get you the dump.

(trunk-recorder + rdio scanner).

The UI is:

https://cvgscan.iwdo.xyz for the live stuff, but, let me know if you're interested in the data -- my email is in my profile

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