[[!meta title="Captions, tech checks, intros, OBS"]]
Hello, everyone! Here's the weekly update on what's happening backstage
for EmacsConf 2022 in case you notice something that you want to help
out with. =)
- Help wanted - Captioning: There are three talks open for captioning
in <https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/> , so feel free to
e-mail me if you'd like to reserve one. I've tweaked the captioning
process a little bit so that I can reflow the transcripts into
shorter subtitles before people edit the captions, so editing is
easier to do because you don't have to split along the way. (If
you're curious about the technical stuff, I switched to manually
splitting the text using emacsconf-reflow from emacsconf-el and then
the using aeneas for forced alignment, because I couldn't figure out
how to get torchaudio unstuck sometimes.)
If you don't have the username and password for the backstage area
and you would like to access it, please e-mail me and I'll send you
the details.
- Help wanted - tech checks: For sessions with live Q&A, we'd like to
set up tech-checks with speakers to make sure that their setup works
well with BigBlueButton. A rough outline of the process is in the
tech-checking protocol heading at
<https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#tech-checks> . If you
would like to help with tech-checks, please e-mail us with your
general availability (including timezones) and preferred public
contact information so that we can include you on the list at
<https://emacsconf.org/2022/prepare/#tech-check> and in the e-mail to
speakers.
- Help wanted - intro/intermission slides, OBS overlay, ??: It might
be interesting to design something to show right before and right
after a talk so that people can see the title, speaker name, talk
page URL, Q&A info, pad URL, pronouns, etc. Ideally we'd be able to
generate a whole bunch of these from the talk data, so maybe SVG or
a TikZ picture? If this is your jam, let us know.
- OBS in the cloud: We've been able to figure out how to stream both
streams using OBS, VNC, and PulseAudio on Ry P.'s virtual server, so
it's even more likely that we're going to pull off two tracks this
year. Yay!
- Tom Purl has joined as a captioning volunteer. Hi Tom!
This week we hope to get lots of talks submitted, processed, and on
the way to being captioned. We're also planning to make the captioning
workflow even better, and to improve the OBS streaming workflow. Whee!
Sacha <sacha@sachachua.com>
