This is the blog of Ant Miller, senior research manager and dilettante geek at large at the BBC.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Spoken Word/ Annotatable Audio

I was stunned and then shrug shouldered happy to hear about a BBC project doing almost exactly what another BBC project was doing. Only different, but so similar it's amazing. Anyway take a look at Tom Coates' brilliant last project at the beeb, then look at the Glasgow Caledonian Spoken Word project , which is spokily almost the same functionality but done a bit differently, and as an education aid for legal students, but is largely the same approach to the same question.

Now to get really spookey- both have BBC input with, until this week, practically no, zero, nadda, knowledge of each other! Fantastic!

I shall work harder at this whole KM thing. Got a way to go though.

And a final p.s. in case anyone thinks this is inappropriate etc., you're wrong. Keeping this a bit private would rather perpetuate the error. I'm trying to fix things here!

7 comments:

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Tom said...

I'm not sure I agree it was an error as such - just because we didn't know the other project was happening doesn't mean that it wouldn't still have been better to have two parallel projects, for a start. And - let's be honest - the idea of annotating audio is not a new one. The stuff that everyone's trying to work out is how to annotate it and what UI to put on it. We should probably be proliferating models rather than trying to shut them down to one or two - particularly if (as with our project) developing one to a decent level only takes four or five people three or four weeks to get functioning...

meeware said...

I'm totally in favour of proliferation. But I think the beeb would be a better place if it was a bit more open and interconnected. Hark at me, I'll be mewling over loosing Greg Dyke again in a minute. Poor Greg. sniff.

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