conference call tech
2016-05-21 01:09:09.015468+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Using open source software and IBM's Watson to zone out during conference calls:
Newlan's python script starts to run when a meeting begins and his computer's microphone listens in the background. It uses an open source speech recognition program to recognize phrases based on the silences between people's sentences. Then it uses IBM Watson's speech-to-text service to transcribe what's said.
Whenever his name is mentioned, the program sends him a 30 second transcript of what was said before his name was mentioned (and a little after).
Newlan's script then waits 15 seconds and plays a pre-recorded audio file of him saying, "Sorry, I didn't realize my microphone was on mute."