Shawn King of
The Mac Show Live talked a few days ago with Apple co-founder and knowledge-omnivore Steve (
The Woz) Wozniak. Shawn graciously agreed to post the interview, formerly Quicktime only (
downloadable or
streaming), as an
MP3 file -- so now most anyone can listen. This is an interview worth listening to: Woz talks about his lifelong motivations, his years with Apple (up to the present), OS X, the Newton, and what the future holds for him. He also talks about building TV jammers and the only prank he got caught for in high school, one which might not fly so well right now. (The interview starts about 55 minutes into the show, and lasts for nearly an hour.) What's this got to do with typing madly? Well, since Shawn's program is all-audio (no pictures, and only the barest explanitory text), it's a lot less useful to those on text-only or just-plain-slow links than it could be. Read on below for your chance to change that with just a few minutes of your time.
Update: 10/20 20:43 GMT by
T : Thanks to everyone who's volunteered to transcribe, and to the several alternates who are already in line! No need for more voluneers right now :)
Transcribing an hour of text takes a long time. But if you (yes, you!) are willing to transcribe a 3-minute (well. 3:15) chunk of this interview, I will spend my putative day off gluing chunks of interview together. Shoot me an email with "WozScript" in the subject if you'd like to participate, and I'll give the first volunteers (it shouldn't take that many) a randomly-drawn three-minute segment to type up, as well as more instructions on how to format it. No compensation except your name in lights, and the knowledge that lynx users everywhere appreciate your efforts. I'll update this story if and when the transcription is complete. (And if anyone can suggest a good Quicktime audio --> .ogg converter, Shawn and I would both appreciate it.)
This guy has vision (Score:5, Interesting)
I found it interesting that in this interview, he acknowledges that the industry has shifted to cheap, commodity hardware and that Apple continues to suffer from it - but he was absolutely correct in pointing out that blind brand loyalty by "artsy types" was keeping them in business. Though Steve's strengths are obviously technical in nature, he possesses an innate understanding of a lot of issues on the business side of things that helped to keep him ahead of the curve.
-CT
Re:Speech to text recognition (Score:2, Interesting)
File Sizes - Slashdot Poll (Score:5, Interesting)
a) Quick Time quality sucks.
b) MP3 compression sucks.
c) Cowboy Neal sucks.
Re:Speech to text recognition (Score:3, Interesting)
Ahh, here it is: It's called CueVideo and it's aimed at Multimedia indexing: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/cuevideo/ [ibm.com]
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Here's an almost unrelated article: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/news/2000082
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM98/electronic_pro
Re:This guy has vision (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not an "artsy" type in the least. I'm a system integrator. After a long day of work fixing the piece of shit that is Windows, for unappreciative clients that get mad at me because the software they chose is constantly getting fucked up, I want to come home, sit down, and use a computer that works right all the time. As long as Apple continues to make computers that fit that criteria, I will be loyal to them.
Once a month I rebuild my desktop, and I run Norton Disk Doctor quarterly as preventative maintenance. A virus? What's that? I saw one once on my Mac, in 1992. (MDEF, IIRC, a non-malicious virus that could be removed by a desktop rebuild).
Being artsy or not has little to do with why people choose Macs.
~Philly
On Listening (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:This guy has vision (Score:2, Interesting)