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diff --git a/blog/2022-10-23.md b/blog/2022-10-23.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9ab9d4c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2022-10-23.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +[[!date "2022-10-23"]] +[[!title "Backstage, captions, streaming, and more"]] + +Hello, folks! 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. =) + +- We've e-mailed the speakers instructions for uploading their files + through either a web browser or an FTP client, and three speakers + have already done so! Those talks are now available in the backstage + area (<https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/backstage/>), along with the + first set of edited captions (thanks Jai Vetrivelan!). 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. +- We've created a BBB room for each speaker's live Q&A session. The + URLs are in conf.org in the private repository if you need them. +- We've drafted some documentation for different volunteer roles. If + you'd like to volunteer as a captioner, check-in person (hmm, + reception?), Etherpad scribe, IRC monitor, or host, please check out + the appropriate link and let me know if I need to add anything to + the docs: + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/caption> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/irc> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/pad> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/checkin> + - <https://emacsconf.org/2022/volunteer/host> +- Thanks to David O'Toole for signing up for some IRC shifts! If you + would like to volunteer for a shift, check out + <https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#shifts> . +- We've updated our streaming configuration for the General and + Development tracks, and have started testing them using mpv and the + watch pages. Videos aren't currently streaming, but you can check + out the layout of the watch pages at: + - https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/> + - https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/gen/> + - https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/> + - https://live.emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/> + These pages could probably be a lot prettier and easier to use. If you have some ideas + for improving them or if you'd like to work on the HTML/CSS/JS, we'd + love your help! +- There are now Q&A waiting rooms with friendly URLs so that it's + easier for people to join the live Q&A when the host decides it's + okay to let everyone in. They're linked on the watch pages (along + with the pads) and they'll be linked from the talk pages once we're + ready to share them. +- zaeph has been busy tweaking the ffmpeg workflow for reencoding and + normalizing videos. Thanks to Ry P. for sharing the + res.emacsconf.org server with us - we've been using it for all the + processing that our laptops can't handle. +- We experimented with using the OpenAI Whisper speech-to-text toolkit + to create the auto-generated captions that captioning volunteers can + edit. Looks promising! If you'd like to compare the performance + between small, medium, and large models, you can look at the VTT + files for the sqlite talk in the backstage area. I've also added + support for tab-separated values (like Audacity label exports) and a + subed-convert command to subed.el, which might give us a more + concise format to work with. I'll work on getting word-level timing + data so that our captioning workflow can be even easier. + +Next week, we hope to: + +- improve the prerec and captioning workflows +- get more captions underway + +Lots of good stuff happening! + +Sacha |