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1. blanto+G2[view] [source] 2020-06-08 23:08:00
>>illumi+(OP)
This is very impressive.

I'm the owner of Broadcastify.com, where presumably these streams are being transcribed from. We've dabbled in this space and looked at real-world approaches to taking something like this to market, but transcribing 7000+ streams to text seems like an expensive (computational) and ($$) effort that needs a lot of investigation.

Note to mention that the individual lexicons between streams are drastically different.

I wonder how the developer has done the integration to our streams... because I never heard from them :)

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2. coffee+eD1[view] [source] 2020-06-09 16:12:52
>>blanto+G2
Hey I want to say that I love Broadcastify for listening to my local police and fire scanners so thank you for providing that free service without requiring app downloads and so on. Awesome work!

I will say though I recently noticed that during the recent unrest in my city that the stream had a caption along the lines of 'police are using encrypted channels' which is understandable but disappointing from the perspective of a citizen looking for transparency.

I realize both the possible legal and technical difficulty of implementing something like this but have you had any conversations about how to maybe combat this? Times of unrest are not only a massive opportunity for Broadcastify to grow its user base but it's also when transparency is at its peak importance.

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